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THE GOVERNMENT’S TARGET of providing 87,000 private rental units will be €23.8 billion more expensive than using local authority buildings, over a 30-year period, according to a Maynooth University report.
The report states that the government’s current policy to address the housing crisis is over-reliant on the private rental sector.
Currently, the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme is the main provider of social housing under the government’s Rebuilding Ireland action plan to address housing and homelessness.
HAP allows housing applicants find their own private rented accommodation with the assistance of local authorities.
The report calls for the tripling of spending on social housing to €1 billion per year to allow for the rapid building of an additional 5,000 social housing units within 16 months.
It argues that investment should be made into local authority housing as opposed to privately owned homes.
It established that the state cost of funding a local authority home over 30 years comes to €800 per month.
In contrast, it found that the average HAP rent in Dublin is €1,244 per month.
Over a 30 year period, the provision of a HAP housing unit in Dublin would be almost €275,000 more expensive than if it was provided through a state-funded local authority social housing unit, the report found.
The report said:
This makes the Rebuilding Ireland target of providing 87,000 private rental units €23.8 billion more expensive than providing these units via local authority building, over 30 years.
“The HAP scheme are reliant on supply from the private rental sector, which is in unprecedented crisis with a dramatic increase in demand for rental housing in recent years,” Dr Mary Murphy of Maynooth University said.
“Participants are trying to compete with tenants who are more likely to have recent work and landlord references.
“Most families report that they are filtered out of the private rental search at the first hurdle.
The most vulnerable families have had their chances of finding accommodation extremely reduced by the prioritisation of HAP.
Family hubs
Family hubs are group accommodation units specifically for homeless families looking for permanent accommodation. They aim to provide cooking, cleaning and on site support services for families.
The hubs are part of the Rebuilding Ireland’s solution to the numbers of families forced to live in hotels due to homelessness.
The report established “significant concerns that the reality of institutional life will, over time, damage a family’s ability to funding independently”.
“Stable long term housing is the only viable option to resolve family homelessness and any form of emergency accommodation, including family hubs, can only be a very short term solution,” Murphy said.
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Show up at your local protest against the Household Tax. Most protests at 12 noon. Show this government that we are not willing to be bled anymore to pay Troika Taxes. Save your blood for the Irish Blood Transfusion Board.
There are over 40 protest actions organised around the country on Saturday. We call on people to connect with their nearest one, which are advertised on nohouseholdtax.org or through our 1890-98 98 00 helpine.”
CAHWT protests Sat Feb 25th:
DUBLIN:
City Centre – meet GPO at 12 noon. Mass leafleting of shopping areas.
Cabra/Stoneybatter – Meet at 12 at Phibsborough Church for protest at clinic of Joe Costello/ Paschal O’Donoghue TDs.
Coolock – Northside shopping centre 12.30
Finglas – protest & leafleting at shopping centre 12 noon
Blanchardstown – 1pm at Council offices, Blanch Town Centre. Bin your govt booklet.
Swords – Fingal Council offices, Swords Main St 12 noon – Bin the Booklet back to Phil.
Balbriggan – Town Hall 12 noon – Bin the Booklet back to Phil.
Ringsend – meet at Library 11.30am
South west inner city – 12 noon at constituency office Catherine Murray TD, Tyrconnell Rd.
Ballyfermot – White line picket (and bin the leaflet. Assemble shops, Ballyfermot Road 2pm.
Lucan – mass leafleting. Meet at Superquinn 12 noon.
Tallaght – mass leafleting at The Square 1pm. Picket Pat Rabbitte Clinic Tallaght village 2pm.
Dun Laoghaire – meet 2pm at the Church Wall
Dundrum town centre – 12 noon.
MUNSTER:
Cork:
City centre – rally at Daunt Square 2pm “bin the booklet”.
Mallow – march assembling 2.30pm at Killarney Rd to march to Town Hall.
Limerick:
Assemble 12pm Pery’s Square, marching to City Hall:
Clare:
Ennis – protest march at 2pm from the O’Connell Monument.
Waterford:
Protest rally 3pm in John Roberts Square.
LEINSTER:
Kildare:
Newbridge – assemble St Conleths Church 12 noon-protest to Martin Heydon TD’s office.
Maynooth/Kilcock – protest 12 noon at The Square, Maynooth Village.
Wicklow :
All Wicklow protest Sat 25th @ 12 noon from Bray town hall march to clinic of Anne Ferris TD
Wexford:
Wexford town -1pm White line protest on bridge.
Gorey – 2pm Protest on Main Street. Assemble outside Pettits supermarket.
Enniscorthy – march and rally at office of Government chief Whip, Paul Kehoe TD starting 10 a.m. Fairgreen (opp.Pettits supermarket).
Carlow:
Assemble 12 noon at Croppies Grave, ’98 Street, Graiguecullen and from there march through Carlow town, finishing at the Liberty Tree.
Kilkenny:
2pm at the Courthouse, Parliament St
Westmeath:
Mullingar – meet at The Square 12 noon.
CONNACHT:
Galway:
Assemble at the Browne Doorway, Eyre Square 2pm for mass binning of leaflet and march to TD clinics.
ULSTER:
Donegal:
Donegal town, Dungloe, Ballybofey, Buncrana, Ramelton, Letterkenny – Information stands in all towns.
Gweedore/Gaoth Dobhair – meet 12 noon Páirc Gnó Ghaoth Dobhair (outside Dinny McGinley’s ministerial office) and marching to his TD’s office in Machaire Chlochair.
Fál Carrach – meet 12 midday at the crossroads for speeches and then a protest march through the town.
Monaghan:
Car cavalcade throughout county towns to hand out leaflets.Leaving from Monaghan town @ 10am from Peter’s Lake carpark via Clones; Ballybay; Carrickmacross and on to Castleblaney and then back to Monaghan. Supporters from each town will be giving out leaflets just before cavalcade arrives.
LOUTH
Dundalk & Mid / North Louth
Ardee will be carrying banners down the main street and leafleting as they go. Meeting @ 12 and going until 2
For the rest of the area, everyone is meeting in ‘the square’ Dundalk where there will be stalls from 1-4 from which the leaflet will be distributed.
Drogheda activity: West Street Drogheda stall from 1.30pm onwards. Members of the group will be distributing leaflets across the town on the day and from early morning on the market.
Please check the website http://www.nohouseholdtax.org for late notifications of other protests
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Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ghost
Grease
Dr No
Titanic
The Sound of Music
Singing in The Rain
The Seven Year Itch
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Everybody in the country must partake in the protest, as it is important that we let the government know that we are totally against the charges they are imposing on us, and they are punitive, which is what they are. I am very sad that I am not taking part in the protest, and the reason that I am not is as a result of the economic crisis, is that I had an argument with my long term unemployed 44 year old husband, and had to leave home, but I had planned to go to Kilkenny today but life has become too unbearable at home, as I am on the dole too, but I am hoping that there will be another one, and I will make sure that I attend in the near future.
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