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Housing and Homelessness
8TH FEBRUARY 2016 TEL: 01 451 3822 / 01 451 9000 email: info@newsgroup.ie web: www.newsgroup.ie
After the launch of the Simon Community Election Manifesto, ‘Changing the Forecast: Addressing the Homeless and Housing Crisis’, Independent candidate, Senator Katherine Zappone, calls for creative solutions to the Housing crisis to be considered. "The next government must treat this issue as a top priority, with 5324 people stuck in emergency housing,
1709 of those children, we simply cannot let this situation continue."
The Senator’s recent housing Bill, Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2015 proposed an immediate, people-led solution to the on-going housing crisis. The ultimate solution is to build more homes and help to safeguard the homes of low income families until the
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housing stock comes on stream. At the same time we must protect property owners in negative equity from repossessions.
“When I speak with families in South County Dublin, I can see that the housing and homeless crisis has touched most households in our community in some way - whether it is due to rising rents and lack of
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rent certainty, unfair interest rates, hostile treatment by lenders over mortgage arrears, lack of social housing or the fear of homelessness due to unaffordability of rents especially for families relying on RAS or HAP payments. The situation is unbearable for so many people and this needs to change."
The 32nd Dáil will inherit this crisis and public representatives’ need to have a clear and effective vision for the future. Practical and innovative solutions put forward to resolve the crisis have not been acknowledged by this Government. Zappone's bill not only proposes social housing reform but also reform of the private rented sector, which will deliver greater stability and security for a significant portion of the Irish population.
Election promises need to turn into action once the new Government is in place. Senator Zappone asserts that she will be steadfast
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