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missgeri · 04-09-2017 09:55PM #1

I was just wondering if anyone has any idea how long it is taking to get a council house these days. I am presuming with the housing crises it is much slower but I can't find out any info online. the fingal website just says a minimum of 7 years.
we have been on the list over 7 years now and as of January we were ranked somewhere around 450 on the list. can we e expect to wait another year or another 5?
also does anyone out there know if you are on HAP are you taken off the list?

Dizzyblonde · 05-09-2017 11:20AM

Mod note: I've moved this into the State Benefits forum, hopefully you'll get advice in here.

*Moved from Dublin County North.

Gatling · 05-09-2017 11:21AM

Current estimates are 10-12 years across the country,
We're 10 years on SDCC list

missgeri · 05-09-2017 01:14PM

Gatling wrote: »

Current estimates are 10-12 years across the country,
We're 10 years on SDCC list

still a ways to go yet then.

do you know if you move into HAP if you can stay on the council list

Gatling · 05-09-2017 04:31PM

missgeri wrote: »

still a ways to go yet then.

do you know if you move into HAP if you can stay on the council list

I believe you can but you only have a short time period to request to stay on the list when you get hap ,
Just check with fingal county council to to be sure first ,

January · 05-09-2017 04:33PM

We're on the list coming up on 6 years and are still up in the 1000's number wise. Was talking to a councillor the other day and he said we'll be at least another ten years waiting.

Gatling · 05-09-2017 04:50PM

January wrote: »

We're on the list coming up on 6 years and are still up in the 1000's number wise. Was talking to a councillor the other day and he said we'll be at least another ten years waiting.

Crazy situation

January · 05-09-2017 06:13PM

Just trucking along hoping our situation changes soon and we can buy a house sooner... (also upskilling etc to ensure we can actually afford and not just hoping against hope!)

missgeri · 05-09-2017 07:57PM

January wrote: »

We're on the list coming up on 6 years and are still up in the 1000's number wise. Was talking to a councillor the other day and he said we'll be at least another ten years waiting.

that is disgraceful. that's 16 years in total. but at the rate that the council are building at the moment I can understand why.

Gatling · 05-09-2017 09:17PM

missgeri wrote: »

that is disgraceful. that's 16 years in total. but at the rate that the council are building at the moment I can understand why.

I remember talking to a housing officer for clondalkin about 3 years back and he claimed some local authorities were only in single figures for people given properties over a 4 year period because there was simply no stock ,

Yet people in hotels and b&bs were turning down multiple offers,

Apologies for the rant wasn't meant as a rant .

January · 05-09-2017 11:17PM

There's a house boarded up two doors down from me and it has been completed since February. And it's still vacant.

missgeri · 05-09-2017 11:27PM

January wrote: »

There's a house boarded up two doors down from me and it has been completed since February. And it's still vacant.

I know the council keep a number of houses boarded up for use I emergency cases, like after a family looses a home to fire.

January · 06-09-2017 11:17AM

That's not true, I know a few families who have lost their homes to fire and haven't been offered an alternative house that had been left boarded up.

In fact, the house that's boarded up actually caught fire before Christmas and that didn't happen to the family who lost their house.

missgeri · 06-09-2017 12:44PM

January wrote: »

That's not true, I know a few families who have lost their homes to fire and haven't been offered an alternative house that had been left boarded up.

In fact, the house that's boarded up actually caught fire before Christmas and that didn't happen to the family who lost their house.

that's what I always heard. bloody he'll then why are there so many houses boarded up for so long. I get that they have to make sure they are up to a certain standard and the council sends everything out to tender but i know of houses that have been boarded up for well past 12 months.

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