Calls for a review of rent supplement
The call comes from the Simon Community.
One of Ireland’s largest homelessness charities is calling for an urgent review of rent supplement limits which it says are forcing people onto the streets.
Simon Communities Ireland has carried out a ‘snapshot study’ of 10 regions - where there was over eleven-hundred properties available to rent but just 138 inside Rent Supplement or Housing Assistance Payment limits.
It says if the Government is serious about ending long-term homelessness by next year, it must immediately increase supplements to meet rent hikes.
Over the last 12 months rents in Cork city have increased by 7.5% while at the same time auctioneers have been reporting shortages in available rental properties.
Niamh Randall of Simon says the situation means people are trapped in emergency accommodation.
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