Soical housing question

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Ah I didn't know they got the house for life,

Sleepy wrote: »

The HAP scheme is slightly difference but once you're in a council house, it's a house for life. Your rent will be assessed as:

12% of the “assessable income” of the principal earner

+ 12% of income of each subsidiary earner to a maximum of €40.00 per week per Subsidiary Earner.

Assessable income is: Job Seekers Benefits/Allowances/FIS for those in receipt of social welfare payments and/or gross pay less tax, PRSI and USC (i.e. net income) for those earning a wage.

More details: https://www.fingal.ie/sites/default/files/2019-03/Differential%20Rent%20Scheme.pdf

hi everyone can i ask here is the threshold for social housing on your net or gross income? They said my gross was over but on the websites it says its taken by your net income?

I knew someone who was offered their house by SDCC for less than €80k about 13 years ago but the person declined the offer has they had only to pay 10% of their social welfare for rent and everything else was looked after by the council. Similar houses sell now for +€260k on the open market.

How much would be the clawback amount?

At least your honest!!

I admire that.

Does it still happen now? My brother bought his 3 bedroom semi d of the Corpo in 1988, Dublin Millennium, for the princely sum of £11,000. Sold it early 2000s and built a lovely house for himself in Kildare.

I thought they had stopped all that messing around now that housing is in such short supply.

I was once told by somebody who was a top officer in my local authorities housing department that it would not be fair or the done thing to uproot people from their homes, basically smaller homes weren't and won't be built on purpose and he said that would be the case for all local authorities, sure in my area the local authority bought a row of five 3/4 storey townhouses which were intended to be subdivided into 23 1 and 2 bedroom apartments for the elderly and single people(specifically for those that needed to be rehomed into smaller properties), properties were bought 7/8 years ago, and excuses are being made left right and centre, including that of accessibility issues for the elderly, even though lifts are included in the plans and due the nature and size of the site they would have a massive green area, with shelters, sensory garden, sitting areas and each property to have its own shed, and a separate building for bins, goodness knows what else, apparently now the middle house is going to be knocked and seven 3 bedroomed houses will now be built on the grounds instead, an extract from the local authorities statement says, that it make more sense in the long term, and that larger builds benefit more people, and that the new proposed development would be better value financially in the long term,

Another example a lady(pensioner/widow) I know of in my town, renting a (originally 3 bed standard council house) 4 bedroom semi-detached, one bedroom downstairs with wet room, which she and her family part-funded when her late husband suffered from multiple strokes, afaik, she and family paid for materials and a council approved builder, etc, done the works, that was nigh on 20 years ago, husband passed away a few years back, last year or thereabouts the council informed her that the house she resides in was way beyond her needs, all 5 children have long flew the nest, the council was offering her a 2 bed new build (on land owned by the council but only built on in recent years)bungalow within the same estate, the way it was built it's more secure than her current house, she got a solicitor involved and basically on the grounds that it's her family home (52 years) and the money she put into it, I've been in the house and it's lovely, modern, etc, obvious she puts money into it, she was the first in the estate with double glazing and central heating as she and her husband paid for all that themselves, even replumbed and rewired the place a couple of years before the husband had his stroke, also a couple not years after the extension was built they paid for the house to be insulated, and they got the whole chimney redone took out the open fire, now it's some sort of wood burner that heats the place, anyway I'm rambling, long story short she won the appeal,

One thing I always couldn't understand if they were able to afford all the upgrades with ease why did they never buy out the house, maybe they didn't envisage they could be asked to vacate the home for a smaller house, not my business at the end of the day though...