COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE (1)

Thursday, December 02, 2010

QUESTION NO. 1

QUESTION: Councillor S. Crowe

To ask the Manager will he confirm that a Housing Application from a seperated individual, who previously had a mortgage and has signed his housing ownership title and share over to his children and has a current legitimate housing need, would be included on the Council's current Social Housing List for this Committee area.

REPLY:

A full housing assessment must be carried must before confirmation of housing need can be given.  The Council's Scheme of Letting Priorities sets out the criteria for inclusion on the Housing List, Part 2, pargraph 3 states:-

3.Where applicants are owners or joint owners of dwellings, or tenants or joint tenants of local authority dwellings, but are not living in these dwellings owing to marital problems, such applicants may be considered for housing accommodation if a legal separation has been entered into, or in comparable circumstances at the discretion of the Manager, and the Council is satisfied with the housing provision of the agreement, and where it would not be possible for such applicants, due to financial or other circumstances, to provide adequate accommodation from their own resources.

This applicant should arrange a Housing Interview with Allocations Section, at interview all documentation, including legal, will be examined.  At interview the applicant will be informed of whether he has been included on the Housing List or not.