56% of South Dublin Social housing in arrears

Gone Drinking

Taken from: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/council-to-take-legal-action-against-22-tenants-who-owe-more-than-20000-in-rent-arrears-41748533.html

56% of all tenants in arrears, at an average rent of 55 euro per week. Housing crisis? People crisis. Given todays social welfare payments (children, single allowance, sick etc), there's very few excuses why anyone should be in arrears at an average rent of 55 euro per week.

We pay through our noses in tax to support those who can't buy or rent themselves and they're failing to meet the fractional sized payments required. The rest of us drown in mortgage and the cost of living increases.

Legal action is being taken against 22 individuals who owe 20k+ and threatened to others but sure what good is it? If you take the house off them, you'll need to put them up in a hotel whilst you find somewhere else?

The government are being taken advantage of (and in turn, the tax payer) as it's too soft regarding social housing, means testing and social welfare payments. People aren't paying up because they know they can get away with it.

Oscar Madison

I suppose when you have people owing millions having their debt written off if would make you consider your options!

macvin

But there'd be no money left for the two holidays, the visits to tayto park, the 20 smokes and the sessions down the pub.

Ray Palmer

This is one of the reason private landlords have been used for housing social welfare recipients. The rent arrears to private landlords doesn't cost them anything and private citizens have to deal with it and absorb the costs. The councils also don't have to maintain the properties to the same standard as private rentals.

neris

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205037#Comment_119205037

Dont forget the BMW with tinted windows, tattoos and Nike tracksuits for all the kids

Fattybojangles

Oh for **** sake is there a rule that there has to be 1 of these threads a day? What is your solution? Fcuk them out on the street?

Gant21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205320#Comment_119205320

No, they should work.

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205320#Comment_119205320

Direct payment from social welfare payments and/or deductions from wages like tax.

What is your solution to paying for social housing costs? Make everyone else pay.

Ush1

This is crazy because someone on here told me that there's no such thing as free housing. I for one, am shocked.

Fattybojangles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205345#Comment_119205345

There isn't hence why SDCC is bringing these people to court for non payment and I'm sure many will resume payments upon receipt of legal letter. If the people involved were scumbag property developers they could probably apply for a multi million euro debt right off.

Fattybojangles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205337#Comment_119205337

I'd prefer if the scandalous profits being made by private landlords were somehow redirected to support social housing.

Ush1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205390#Comment_119205390

"I'm sure many will resume payments upon receipt of legal letter" 🤣

Gant21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205337#Comment_119205337

Well said.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205405#Comment_119205405

They already are via 40% taxation on all rental income.

Fandymo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205320#Comment_119205320

Yes. Set up poor houses. Industrial warehouse sized buildings with enclosed bedrooms/kitchen/toilet and put 100-200 non payers and their families into each of them.

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205405#Comment_119205405

Why not from the trademen who push up the prices of building. Is 52% tax not high enough for landlords? How about REITs pay tax instead.

Just checking what is a scandalous profit and how much do you KNOW about a landlords profit margin?

macvin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205334#Comment_119205334

I think the proposal to move minimum wage to a working wage for all over 21 will give some incentive. At the same time, the exceptionally generous jobseeker's allowance should not be increased.

On council rents, it should be deducted at source. That can be done now and it should be done automatically for all.

Mrs OBumble

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205460#Comment_119205460

Except for rents paid to investment funds, which don't pay income tax.

mazdamiatamx5

So social housing tenants aren't actually getting free gafs after all, they are having to pay for it and if they don't pay they risk eviction. The reich wing really needs to get its story straight.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205650#Comment_119205650

Aren't something like 85% of landlord owned properties owned by 'small time' landlords though? (ie 1-2 properties?)

So 'the scandalous profits being made by private landlords' as referred to by Fattybojanges would primarily be aimed at landlords who are actually paying a massive percentage of their rental income in tax, which would be going to social causes (ie, the very thing he wants the money to go to)

mazdamiatamx5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205657#Comment_119205657

Strange, isn't it, that all these threads focus only on one type of welfare and none of them on corporate welfare for MNC's and farmers' welfare as provided by the CAP. Almost as though there's a deliberate avoidance strategy.

Gant21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205535#Comment_119205535

For sure, it’s not too late yet. Start deducting from their payments asap.

Do a current means test, have they medical cards etc that they are more financially off that they shouldnt.

What car and assets have they, something is wrong if they have a 221 car outside the door.

The whole system needs to be addressed.

mazdamiatamx5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058250291/56-of-south-dublin-social-housing-in-arrears

€55 a week is 30% of the social welfare payment for a single person. The rents are too high and the social welfare payments are too low. Rent should only be 25% of income at most.

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205691#Comment_119205691

How many of the rentals do you think only have one resident living there and no other income? Means assessment set the rent at 10-15% of the household income if I recall. So your little calculation doesn't take into account the actual facts. The €55 is also the average so not 30% of their income if a single resident with one social welfare payment.

What has happened to the education system where people don't understand basic information like averages and percentages along with critical thinking.

Fattybojangles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205676#Comment_119205676

Or the massive amounts of money the private sector leeched from the public purse during covid and still to this day EWSS etc and the scandalously low 9% VAT that hospitality business are paying. These are real issues not the drop in the ocean social housing arrears. The real issue with social housing is that it is not being built en masse by the state so that it can be available to as many as possible.

For Forks Sake

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205405#Comment_119205405

f0cks sake, who let Paul Murphy in

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205670#Comment_119205670

I think the numbers are a bit off. The vast majority of landlords are small time but the REITs have already bought up a good lot of the market.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205810#Comment_119205810

Would you prefer if the private sector just let employees go rather than get assistance via the EWSS scheme?

Hospitality really need a leg up at the moment, would you rather they just fold?

The real issue seems to be that you've a bee in your bonnet for any private enterprise and actually want to live in some form of communist state.

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205810#Comment_119205810

What money was leeched? Aren't we seeing the effects of the EWSS not going far enough in hospitality and the like of Dublin Airport? Just can't make sense of what you are saying. Who exactly do you expect to pay for things?

Fattybojangles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205873#Comment_119205873

Hospitality need a leg up do they? Have you seen how much they are charging for Hotel rooms in Dublin its pure gouging.

Fattybojangles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119205899#Comment_119205899

What we are seeing in hospitality and Dublin Airport is the effect of poor wages and poor working conditions long hours and crap pay = staff shortages.