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Wednesday 20 January 2021
I’ve queued up with over 30 people to get into view a house. Then you have to pitch yourself, X-Factor style, as to why they should pick you.
“Landlords answer to banks. We’re still paying the price for austerity.”
The letters were delivered in Oireachtas envelopes and headed paper.
One charity is asking them to consider it.
Tenants are paying a premium of up to 30% to move one stop.
Three in ten tenants also fear losing their houses.
Cork and Galway have had their biggest increases in at least 10 years.
The government’s rent-control measures were announced last week.
Proposed new legislation could see rent hikes only being allowed once every two years.
The number of recipients in Dublin makes up over a third of the overall number of people using the scheme.
The PRTB has issued advice to the public over the measures.
Full details of the plan agreed between the Finance and Environment ministers will be unveiled next Tuesday.
“Some old crank rang about a party last night.”
Or were you able to weather it out?
It comes as a new poll finds strong support for the minister’s rent certainty proposal.
There has been talk about penalties for landlords who don’t accept rent supplement, calls for the ban on bedsits to be lifted and continuous calls for more housing supply — so what is the answer? We asked two experts with different viewpoints what is at play here.
Inflation for low income households was above the average rate during the recession.
London has an even greater property shortage than Dublin, but many of its exclusive properties are being rented by wealthy foreign college students.
The student accommodation crisis is a barrier to education, and it needs action now, says USI president Kevin Donoghue.
The Daft.ie Rental report has just been released, and it’s not looking good for renters.
People looking for rental properties in all Ireland’s major cities are in for a rude shock.
Fancy having someone playing piano in your office? No problem with this kind of money.
An extra 172 families are now homeless since the action plan was published last December.
Two landlords had criminal proceedings brought against them.
It takes a project an average of 79 weeks from the date of planning application till the first builders start clearing the first square foot of the site for construction.
On-campus accommodation is snapped up a lightning speed, leaving vulnerable young people at the mercy of the inhospitable private market.
It’s very spacious, at least.
“If Steven Spielberg tried to create it for a horror movie, he couldn’t.”
The Labour minister wants to put the lid on prices by linking them to inflation.
Nether registered their tenancy as is required.
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
The campaigner is not impressed by the government’s housing plans.
If county councils pay the difference between what people owe on their mortgages and what they can afford to pay the taxpayer foots the bill, writes Aaron McKenna.
Whatever action the government takes on Ireland’s housing debt crisis will be the ‘biggest political decision since Irish Water’ according to a householders’ group.
Squatters have defended their occupation of the site, saying it provides a home for many young people and services for the community.
The register of Members’ Interests for 2014 has revealed that some TDs are landlords.
Unsurprisingly, you would of been paying quite a bit less.
INFORMATION ON IRELAND’S Covid-19 vaccine rollout often comes from Health Minister Stephen Donnelly, but there have been calls to instead put in place a Vaccine Minister.
Fine Gael MEP and former Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald said there should be a separate minister in charge of the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine.
She spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning and has spoken in recent days about the idea.
Labour leader Alan Kelly has previously called for a minister to be put solely in charge of the vaccine rollout, speaking about it in the Dáil and on the radio.
Responding to Kelly on this last month, the Taoiseach said a “good team” was in place with the High-Level Task Force on Covid-19 Vaccination.
The UK appointed a Vaccine Deployment Minister last year – MP Nadhim Zahawi.
So today we’re asking: Should Ireland have a Vaccine Minister?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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