Category: Housing Support

Rent supplement is paid to persons in private rented property who cannot meet the rental costs from their income and resources. Rent supplement is geared in such a way to ensure that income does not fall below an absolute minimum.  It is effectively the basic social welfare rate less a notional rental allowance. The accommodation […]

Cost rental dwellings The owner of a dwelling may  apply to the Minister to designate it as a cost rental dwelling. The Minister has the power to prescribe the format of such an application, including the allowable costs to be used when calculating the cost-covering rent. The application process includes two distinct periods: the ‘cost […]

The 2014 Act introduced a new scheme for housing assistance payments (HAP). It covers  rent payable by households who qualify for social housing support, for private rented accommodation. The household sources the accommodation themselves Households, who qualify for social housing support that are long-term recipients of rent supplement from the Department of Social Protection transferred […]

Rent  allowance is paid to tenants of properties decontrolled by the Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) Acts 1982.  In order to qualify the person must have been a tenant on that day subject to rent control.  They must be entitled to remain as tenant. The rent must be fixed by the District Court or Rent Tribunal.  […]

The Incremental Purchase Scheme is designed to provide affordable home to those renting social housing or waiting allocation of social housing.  The scheme is available to existing and prospective tenants of rented social housing in order to purchase new local authority or approved body housing. Existing social housing tenants, including tenants of local authorities, approved […]

The 2009 Act Chapter 4  provides the legislative basis for the rental accommodation scheme.  Under the scheme  owners may make houses available to housing authorities for agreed periods for letting to qualified tenants nominated by the Authority in accordance with the Housing Authority\’s allocation scheme.  The Housing Authority pays the rent and the tenant pays […]