Dublin City Council is hoping to purchase 250 homes this year under one of the Government's key schemes to tackle the expected "tsunami" of homelessness, a Council official has said.
The target for the Tenant in Situ scheme, which sees local authorities buy properties from landlord's evicting their tenants, is 200 homes below the allocation set by the Government. The lifting of the eviction ban means more than 7,000 households are facing homelessness with eviction dates due in the coming months.
Dublin is disproportionately affected as the figures show almost half of the Notices to Quit issued in the last three months of 2022 were in Dublin. Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien previously expanded the Tenant in Situ scheme to allow for 1,500 purchases nationwide and 450 in DCC - the country's local authority most severely impacted by homelessness.
