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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, January 09, 2023

MOTION NO. 1

MOTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

That this Council calls for effective action to deal with boarded up Council houses and return them to the housing stock for reletting.

REPORT:

Our Housing Maintenance and Refurbishment section undertake re-let works on vacant housing stock throughout the County to ensure stock is brought back into productive use for letting as soon as possible.  In 2022, re-let works have been completed on vacancies arising in 177  Council-owned social homes up to the end of December (compared to 139 properties in the whole of 2021).  The cumulative average time for these properties to be re-let to date in 2022 is 28.39 weeks, which represents an improvement of over 17% on the final overall re-let times for 2021.  While various measures are being implemented and explored to continue to improve this figure, it is particularly contingent on contractor resourcing/availability and acceptance of offers of accommodation following Choice Based Letting expressions of interest.

There were 110 vacant homes  within our housing stock, representing approx. 1% of our overall housing stock, which are at various stages of the re-letting process as follows:

Area	Pre-Works	Works In Progress	Ready for Allocation	Total
Clondalkin	11	3	2	16
Firhouse-Bohernabreena	1	0	2	3
Lucan	8	1	0	9
Palmerstown-Fonthill	18	6	6	30
Rathfarnham-Templeogue	0	0	1	1
Tallaght Central	4	2	1	7
Tallaght South	39	2	3	44
Total	81	14	15	110

A detailed Relets Process Review report, separately attached, was presented to the Housing Strategic Policy Committee in November 2022 outlining all aspects of the process and targets for future improvement.