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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 09, 2023

QUESTION NO. 13

QUESTION: Councillor M. Johansson

To ask the Chief Executive to give numbers for each of the following; homeless HAP, social housing allocation and tenant-in-situ?

REPLY:

Homeless HAP

At 31st August 2023, there are 2037 active Homeless HAP tenancies.

Social Housing Allocations

At 31st August 2023, there have been 503 offers of social housing made, 113 of the these have been refused.  A total of 405 allocations have been made, comprising of 609 adults and 624 children. 

Tenant in Situ

To date, 428 expressions of interest have been received from current landlords looking to sell their property to the Council with tenants in-situ where notice of termination of tenancy has issued and the current status of our responses to the expressions of interest received is as follows: 

• 100 properties have been purchased or are sale agreed/with law.
• 128 properties have undergone due diligence checks and are at valuation/negotiation stage with a view to purchasing.
• 104 properties at various stages of due diligence and pre-purchase checks.