What business is it of the dept of social welfare to tell a private company what they should do in relation to how they run their business, as per the following link where the two companies have been asked to no longer give landlords the option of declaring whether they take rent allowance tenants or not:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/soci...f-rent-allowance-filter-on-searches-1.1791523
Landlords are free agents and do not have to accept rent allowance tenants. It would be better if government concentrated on the following:
1. Increasing the rent allowance instead of putting families into hotels
2. Monitoring the standard of accommodation (in all my years in business no state agency has ever inspected the accommodation I offer)
3. Start building houses in the greater Dublin area for those on the waiting list, or how about this radical suggestion, buying up the vast amounts of properties that people cannot sell and using that as social housing, it would then give a nice spread rather than creating ghettos
4. If they won't do 3, then encourage developers and banks to start building in the great Dublin area
5. Sort out the mess that is rent allowance, pay it directly to landlords, with a new system where by a landlord will not be left on the hook for weeks on end while the Dept gets it's paperwork in order, or the riduculouos situation whereby the tenant pockets the rent and tells the landlord where to go. With pre inspected properties so these tenants can go into suitable properties, not the worst properties as is currently the case.
6. Sort out a reasonable system for eviction of non paying tenants, and sort out the PRTB.
And Threashold, instead of 'inferring' to tenants it's ok to stay in a place and not pay rent etc, how about lobbying for a change to the rules on eviction for bad tenants. You know the ones that are playing the system and have no intention of paying rent and destroy the house as a parting gift.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/soci...f-rent-allowance-filter-on-searches-1.1791523
Landlords are free agents and do not have to accept rent allowance tenants. It would be better if government concentrated on the following:
1. Increasing the rent allowance instead of putting families into hotels
2. Monitoring the standard of accommodation (in all my years in business no state agency has ever inspected the accommodation I offer)
3. Start building houses in the greater Dublin area for those on the waiting list, or how about this radical suggestion, buying up the vast amounts of properties that people cannot sell and using that as social housing, it would then give a nice spread rather than creating ghettos
4. If they won't do 3, then encourage developers and banks to start building in the great Dublin area
5. Sort out the mess that is rent allowance, pay it directly to landlords, with a new system where by a landlord will not be left on the hook for weeks on end while the Dept gets it's paperwork in order, or the riduculouos situation whereby the tenant pockets the rent and tells the landlord where to go. With pre inspected properties so these tenants can go into suitable properties, not the worst properties as is currently the case.
6. Sort out a reasonable system for eviction of non paying tenants, and sort out the PRTB.
And Threashold, instead of 'inferring' to tenants it's ok to stay in a place and not pay rent etc, how about lobbying for a change to the rules on eviction for bad tenants. You know the ones that are playing the system and have no intention of paying rent and destroy the house as a parting gift.