How to avoid homelessness?

I agree, but blame the system that encourages them, to do this…

Whoring is curing.

Thanks for your civic duty.

I don,t think someone is serious if they say they ran a brothel years ago ,i think he,s being sarcastic .its tough for anyone if you rent a house for years and you then get notice to quit .

I suppose the reason why I was asking is that moving into the attic and availing of the rent-a-room scheme is always an option (assuming you have the space available), whereas completely moving out and leaving the place empty depends on things like (as an example) being offered a job elsewhere. I could not think of a particular event that would provide the option or necessity for both those things.

If you had the option to move out of your house and live elsewhere, what do you do with your house? Rent it to a tenant - refusing HAP is illegal, yet they can stop paying and you get nothing. RTB shafts the LL. Mrs O'Bumble in post number 2 above advised OP to overhold- with advice like that, why would I bother. Or you can keep a room and live there and let the rest of the house on rent a room where tenants are licencees. 14k per annum tax free if you live there yourself. You keep your rights and no RTB concerns. Or rent the house at market rate of 2500 per month or whatever and pay 50% tax………..

Then you see cases like this where someone is in diffiulty (assuming they are genuine - ZERO offence intended), and you can help but the system shafts you. What do you do?

Im currently assessing what to do and am following threads in the forum closely.

MM

Yes but the point is, keeping a room and renting the other rooms is not the same as moving out. The reasons you might move out might that there's some opportunity some distance away that you would need to move out of your house to avail of, so you might choose either to rent out the house or keep it empty. But staying in the house does not fall into either of those categories.

If, as you say, your house will be empty, then you can't avail of the rent-a-room scheme. This is not an option as you will be out of the house.

I don't want to make a big deal out of this but your initial point did not make sense is all.

If you don't mind being away from your family and don't mind sharing with strangers, then the rent-a-room scheme has tax advantages as well as easier termination of licences as opposed to tenancies. Presumably you would be doing this to make a bit of extra money as otherwise you would be moving with your family.