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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 14, 2019

QUESTION NO. 3

QUESTION: Councillor Carly Bailey

To ask the Chief Executive to outline most recent data on the numbers for 2017, 2018 and to end of August 2019 on the social housing list as well as the HAP transfer list as well as how many of those have been housed since and to ask for full information as to how the HAP transfer list works both in principle and in reality.

REPLY:

Housing applicants that have taken up a Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) tenancy are placed on a dedicated HAP Transfer List that operates alongside both the Housing List and the Transfer List. In addition, applicants in a HAP tenancy and on the HAP Transfer List, still have full access to Choice-Based Lettings with the benefit of their full time on the social housing list.

The table below shows for the period 2017 to date:

• the number of applicants on the Council’s social housing list;
• the cumulative number of applicants that have availed of HAP (including Homeless HAP)/ eligible for the HAP transfer list;
• the respective number of allocations from each list where applicable.

Year	No. on Housing List	Allocations from Housing List	No. on HAP Transfer List	Allocations from HAP Transfer List
2017(at year end)	8,172	289	2,339	Not recorded
2018 (at year end)	7,151	312	2,938	17 (5%)
2019 (at end Sept)	6,897	450	3,830	38 (8%)

Generally, applicants sourcing HAP have limited time on the housing list which has restricted the level of success in Choice Based Letting to date. As HAP applicants accumulate more ‘time on list’ the percentage of allocations from the HAP Transfer list will rise naturally. HAP transfer list applicants were approved for access to CBL in late 2017 with allocations specifically from that list recorded from April 2018 onwards.