There were no properties available to rent at standard HAP rates last month, a worrying new report has found.
The Simon Communities of Ireland’s Locked Out of the Market report from September lays bare the deepening housing crisis with just 35 HAP properties were available to rent by people relying on the scheme. All of those properties fell within discretionary limits of 50% above the standard rate in Dublin and 35% elsewhere in the country.
This is the lowest number of HAP properties ever recorded by the quarterly report and the first time there were no homes to rent within the standard rate. The Simon Communities' Head of Policy and Communications, Wayne Stanley, has called for a moratorium on evictions this winter on the back of the report's findings.
