COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, April 09, 2018
QUESTION NO. 19
QUESTION: Councillor M. Ward
Can the Chief Executive provide a report on the amount people on the housing list that have access to Choice Based Lettings in 2018, 2017, 2016. 2015 and 2014.
Can these figures be further broken down to size of dwellings ie, 4 beds, 3 beds, 2 beds and 1 bed properties for each year stated? And what is the average waiting time for each size of property?
REPLY:
There are currently 10,208 applicants on the various Council lists who have access to Choice Based letting, including Housing List (7633), Homeless List, Medical List for standard housing, HAP Transfer List (2470) and RAS Fixed Transfer List (105). However approximately 1000 of these are on hold pending outstanding documentation. These will be pursued in the processing of the Social Housing Assessment 2018
Those on the HAP Transfer List were given access to CBL in May 2017 and Medical List in January 2018.
As the housing list is a live list it is not possible to provide figures for those with access to CBL over the years, however, numbers on list for each year are as below:-
|
YEAR |
Nos. on the Housing list at year end |
|
2014 |
8,564 |
|
2015 |
8,944 |
|
2016 |
7,850 |
|
2017 |
8,172 |
|
2018 to 31/03/18 |
8,040 |
Current dwelling size need for those with access to CBL:-
|
NOS. With access to CBL @ 21/03/18 |
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|
TOTAL = 10,208 |
1 BED |
2 BED |
3 BED |
4 BED |
|
|
2,866 |
4,614 |
2,497 |
231 |
South Dublin County Council introduced the Choice Based Letting (CBL) scheme in October 2011, the first allocation under the scheme being on 8th November 2011. To date 582 allocations have been made under CBL.
The table below shows allocations through the CBL scheme annually since 2014 to 31/03/2018. Figures for the years 2011 to 2014 are not assessable without a time consuming manual exercise.
|
YEAR |
1 BEDROOM |
2 BEDROOM |
3 BEDROOM |
4 BEDROOM |
TOTALS |
|
2014 |
5 |
41 |
19 |
1 |
66 |
|
2015 |
1 |
41 |
19 |
0 |
61 |
|
2016 |
9 |
51 |
33 |
2 |
95 |
|
2017 |
10 |
35 |
30 |
1 |
76 |
|
2018 to 31/03/2018 |
2 |
8 |
4 |
1 |
15 |
The average time on the Council's housing waiting list for those successful CBL applicants is shown below by accommodation size:-
|
SIZE OF DWELLING |
AVERAGE YEARS ON LIST |
|
1 Bedroom |
9 |
|
2 Bedroom |
7 |
|
3 Bedroom |
8 |
|
4 Bedroom |
10 |