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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, July 08, 2019

QUESTION NO. 4

QUESTION: Councillor Carly Bailey

To ask the Chief Executive to supply details of the number of people living in the SDCC area who are on the:

LA Housing waiting list and on the HAP transfer waiting list for 2017 and for 2018 and to ask many of those on each list were moved into council owned social housing in 2018/19. 

And for the Chief Executive to make a statement on the matter. 

REPLY:

The respective number of applicants on the housing list and the HAP transfer list at the end of 2017 and 2018 were as follows:

Year	Housing List	HAP List
2017	8,172	2,180
2018	7,151	2,615

The number of allocations to Council rented dwellings made during 2018 and 2019 (to date) are shown below:

No.’s Allocated from:
Year	Housing List	HAP List
2018	193	12
2019 to date	111	8

It should be noted that the majority of applicants availing of HAP have applied for social housing relatively recently and therefore do not have sufficient "Time on List" to qualify for an offer of social housing.

The policy implications of increasing numbers of housing applicants in HAP supported accommodation and their future accommodation needs will be a matter for consideration by the Housing Strategic Policy Committee.