Housing Policy
Dail Éireann — 2022-09-28
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Denis Naughten (IND), Roscommon-Galway

The income limits for social housing have not increased in a decade, while property prices have doubled over the same period, forcing people to turn down work or face the prospect of homelessness. Other families who received the pandemic unemployment payment, despite its temporary nature, have now been forced off the housing list. In a perverse twist, the budget measures announced yesterday to help families will push more of them off the housing list, resulting in the withdrawal of housing assistance. When will we see changes to these thresholds?

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Sitting date: 2022-09-28