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HOUSING CHARITY THRESHOLD has said it intervened in more than 100 illegal or threatened evictions during periods when eviction bans were in place due to the pandemic.
Threshold today released its 2019 annual report and additional details on some help given during the pandemic this year.
Speaking at the report launch, chairperson of Threshold Aideen Hayden said the ban on evictions put in place in March and then again in October “did offer some reprieve for tenants”.
“In spite of this, however, Threshold had to intervene in over 100 illegal or threatened evictions and advised on almost 300 invalid notices of termination between March and August, when the first moratorium was in place,” she said.
In some of these cases, tenants came home to find the locks changed, their belongings still inside and had nowhere to go.
The charity said that last year it prevented 8,351 households from entering homelessness, impacting more than 10,700 adults and almost 8,000 children.
The advisors in the group answered 267 calls each day last year and carried out more than 82,000 actions on behalf of renters.
More than one-third of all renters seeking assistance from the group in 2019 had received a notice of termination from their landlord.
Of these people, nearly half (45%) had received the notice because their landlord was intending to sell the property.
60% of renters who sought assistance from the group last year were employed and just 10% were under the age of 25.
Three-quarters were aged between 25 and 44.
Hayden said this shows the “profile of renters in Ireland is changing”.
“It shows that renting is no longer just a transitional tenure for students and young people, before they buy their own home or secure social housing.
“Those aged over 35 are more likely now to rent for life but, without affordable rental options, there will be a housing affordability crisis for this cohort – as well as for the State – when they retire.”
The Housing Minister Daragh O’Brien spoke at the virtual launch of the 2019 report, saying the department made €800,000 in funding available to the charity this year.
Covid-19
Near the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, a range of protections were put in place for people affected by the pandemic.
The rental protections during the emergency period included the ban on eviction notices and rent increases introduced in March. These protections ended on 1 August.
Those measures were then replaced by new rental laws that protect tenants economically affected by Covid-19 who have fallen into rent arrears and who are at risk of losing their tenancy. Those rental laws apply until 10 January 2021.
A temporary ban on evictions was also put in place for six weeks during the last period of Level 5 restrictions in October and November.
During that recent period, Hayden said Threshold intervened in 17 illegal or threatened evictions and advised on 69 invalid eviction notices.
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A better name fro the app would have been dick Tracey….
Oh no he didn’t :)
Genius!
or trace dicky
Or mickey scoop!
Class, Emperor! Give that man 1,000 thumbs (green of course!)
Now I wonder why that app was removed? Seriously..imagine the madness it would cause!
Women…ya couldn’t be up to them Ted…
My wife doesn’t need an app like this…..
She knows you’ll be in the church!
Brilliant one Reg! Gold star for you.
Defo gold star Reg!
Good one Reg :-)
If you start downloading boyfriend trackers you really shouldn’t be in a relationship. Talk about stalking to the extreme. It all about trust!
Yep
No trust, no relationship, end of!
Besides whatever happened to good ol fashioned ‘female intuition’
Every single person out there does the dirt when the opportunity is there. Ones that say they Dont usually are the ones that cheat the most.
Yeah Doey – and the reasons the app was removed? “fears of extortion and stalking”. Nothing to do with the fact if it was called “girlfriend tracker” the fu*king thing would have made frontpage headlines all over the world as being sexist or some other such. Nope it wasn’t removed because it was morally wrong, anti male, and likely illegal,
That says much about the trust issues you’ve got going on Omar.
I can honestly say I would only ever do the dirt with Scarlett Johansson or my man crush Mr Ryan Gosling…. and im sure the missus would be more than happy to join us!
No I just notice from my own relationships and,all my freinds relationships. Male and female.
Oh Gosling….why can’t women be more like you ha ha ;)
Well if you’re into a relationship making it clear you expect to be cheated on…
Word bro!!
I’m pretty sure regardless of the name there’s massive legal issues – how is that not considered stalking? Not to mention that abuse is founded on control – and knowing where someone is at all times seems rather abusive and controlling to me…
Do you really think most people on here think it’s less crap because it’s called “boyfriend” rather than “girlfriend” tracker?
How did this get on there in the first place? All the ruined relationships….. well all the cheating snakes caught out anyway, but why call it boyfriend tracker? Im sure girls cheat too!
Probably an app developed by a company owned by an American government arm. You might think that’s off point or conspiracy theory stuff but if I’m not mistaken Facebook has investment from such a company.
Also it normalises the disgusting behaviour of spying on people which that blatant and found out liar Obama signed off on and has denied. Call me what you want, I’m insult and thumb proof.
Sorry Sean, I didn’t mean to have a rant on your point. I love you. I just can’t believe a product like this has got that far in the first place. Totally weird to me how somebody could do that and let it happen. If one of my wives had that app she would be gone so fast. So fast.
One of your wives? How many do you have?
I love you too
6 but all under different pseudonyms. Say nothing. I’m am endangered species.
But Ade…. U told ME u wer single!!??!?? :-)
Ann, my sweet Ann. These wives….They understand me.
Me and my girlfriend are in an open relationship.
It isn’t ideal but means neither of us get jealous. She can see other men and I don’t have to leave my wife.
Maybe try another wife who’s happy with you…
I’m sure there’s a joke in there about a girlfriend tracker and the kitchen somewhere.
They tried to develop a phone tracker as a safety aid for old people with dementia. It turned out to be a great way of finding forgotten jackets and handbags. Lost old people, no so much.
And Im sure a girlfriend tracker would lead to allegations of misogyny, patriarchy etc. Thered be 3 or 4 “news” articles about it here followed by a long, boring lecture from Lisa McInerney
For shame, Chuck. Lisa’s mission to bring down the phallocracy is obviously lost on your penocratic mindset. Farrelly is also similar to “feely” which indicates a deeply ingrained sense of male privilege.
Nah, Chuck, we’d just be shaking our heads at psycho boyfriends, like we’re shaking our heads at psycho girlfriends right now. Let’s not get the old, tired feminazi crap going again.
Any bf who realised his gf had that app Should remove her from the play store ^-^ #psycho
To be honest, it would make a nice change to this tracking collar and boom mic.
HahahahahaH
I love you, captain. *sigh*
It’s mutual Simo, Old friends are best.
Guys, Ibis are doing a special this weekend ;-)
Bobby my man, I just googled IBIS, if I’m not mistaken it’s some discount hotel like Lenny Henry promotes. We stay in places that don’t discount.
‘You a customer I get it custom made’
All jokin aside download the app and you’ll know where to meet me x
Great, google removed it! Who wants to go out with me??? :)
If I was going out with a bird who bugged my phone I’d do the dirt and get caught purposely then obviously dump her. Finally I would call the police and have her arrested
That’s a shame, Paul, because it sounds like you and that type of woman would be perfect for each other!
There are things we know we know, and there are things we know we don’t know. But there are also things we don’t know we don’t know. These are the things we are better off not knowing
You can’t unknow what you have known either
If you need an approach check on your other half
Well then you shouldn’t have an other half what happened trust ?
APP. Dam iPhone !!!!!
Does it hurt being that psychotic ladies? The constant wondering what your BF is at, your BFF is saying, why some bitch you dont like in accounts is wearing a dress you’d like to the wedding of someone you dont know. I mean, it must be exhausting no?
Excuse me a sec:
“What Sweetie? No, I’m on the journal….. no darling…. no flirting on here……. no…. love ya……no, not porno either…… put my phone down please”
I can’t even imagine how many relationships this ruined..
The app wouldn’t ruin anything that wasn’t already ruined. If you are at a stage in your relationship that you need to install a app like that, then…… Your relationship is no more.
I ran a mobile dept of an independent telecommunications in the UK. My bast@ard ex boy friend sent me a thing like this to track certain phones on your computer . I thought it was great and the sales boys could use it as employers could track employees on the road by this. I never actually tried it though before I sent it off to the sales manager. Yeah it was a gag. Everyone usually types in their partners number to try it out and it supposedly tracks the signal to a bedroom in a house where you got two grainy grey images of two people doing it . You can imagine the sales managers reaction. I was mortified. Still he sent it on to everyone in the place and caught them all with it. I on the other lost all my managers cred there and then . You can see now why boyfriend is an ex lol
They could of made a girlfriend tracker too.
im sure it couldve been used as a girlfiemd tracker too
What you’re looking for is a ‘girlfriend finder’ slight difference ;-)
You “download” apps. The developer of those apps “upload” them.
If the ball was on the other foot, like “track my bird” there would be uproar. Men are bad, mmmmkay? Like those bad men who forced some innocent girls to smuggle marmalade out of Peru.
How on earth did it get on the play store to start with? Is there no vetting at all on that thing?
There’s some really messed up people out there. Whoever a) developed the thing and b) downloaded it, has some serious issues – ones that certainly won’t be resolved by the app, some heavy duty counselling would be more appropriate.
Crazy Bit@hes.
People on here banging on about trust, oh you have to trust your partner, no sir…your partner must do their utmost to instill in you to help you trust them if either one finds themselves in a situation that may compromise them
And it was even backwards compatible with the clam shell Motorola.
Extreme to say the least
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Yeah, came across a gadget that does the same thing… http://www.boomerangtracker.com
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