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The State paid landlords nearly €436m under a social-housing scheme last year.That is an incre...

Share this article There's been a reduction of almost 16% in the total number of people in emergency accommodation. Meanwhile the number of homeless families has also dropped, by over 37%, representing 578 families. The latest figures from the Department of Housing compare the totals in December 2019 with the same month in 2020. However according to Dublin Simon, the number of single homeless adults is up by 8.6% in that time. In 2019 the figure was 4,094, and has risen to 4,447 - which is 76% of the national total of homeless people. Family Homelessness is back down to March 2016 levels, but...

Tenants struggling to pay bills and but food because they have to pay top-ups to landlords Almost half of the tenants spoke of struggling to pay the bills, buy groceries or cover childcare and school costs (Image: Getty) Get the latest news from across Ireland straight to your inbox every single dayInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we ...

The situation was outlined by housing charity Threshold and the St Vincent de Paul as they asked for a review of HAP, the main rental support scheme, and other schemes relied on by 100,000 households. Tenants receiving HAP must pay a contribution to their local authority which then pays what is meant to be the full market rent to the landlord. But Threshold told the Oireachtas Housing Committee that many landlords charged rent higher than the HAP with tenants having to make up the shortfall A discretionary HAP uplift payment was available where no property could be found at a rent the standar...

Tenants receiving rent supplement payments are struggling to pay bills and buy food because they have to pay top-ups to landlords, a committee has heard. People in receipt of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) are having to fork out between 100 to 500 euro each month to landlords as State payments fall short of rental costs. Charities Threshold and St Vincent de Paul told the Oireachtas Housing Committee that almost half of tenants spoke of struggling to pay the bills, buy groceries or cover childcare and school costs. HAP is a form of social housing support available to people living in th...