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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, March 11, 2019

QUESTION NO. 19

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

To ask the Chief Executive for a report into the current numbers on the housing list and how many have been housed since 2014 and are on the list year on year ? what year is SDCC currently housing ?

REPLY:

At mid-February, there were 7,215 applications on the Council's social housing waiting list.

Between 2014 and 2018, the Council has a made total of 1,310 allocations from the social housing waiting list while the number of applicats on the list each year was as follows:

Year No. Applicants on Social Housing List
2014 8,564
2015 8,944
2016 7,850
2017 8,172
2018 7,151

Allocations are made in accordance with our Allocation Scheme based on time on list and specified priority categories.  Given that the majority of allocations are done through Choice Based Letting system, based on areas of availability, home size, individual applicant preference, there is no definitive year that can be identified where it can be said that applicants who applied during that year are now being offered accommodation.