Threshold has received queries from 1,853 renters who face eviction once the ban lifts
. The agency believes that this number will exceed 2,000 by the end of the month and notes that not every person being evicted contacts Threshold. figures from March suggest there are 4,741 notices of termination outstanding from July, August and September last year . According to Threshold the majority are “no-fault” evictions. “In the majority of cases the landlord wishes to sell the home.”
David Carroll, CEO of the homelessness service DePaul, says he worries particularly about vulnerable people being evicted. DePaul will do what it can to assist but its services are already stretched. “Even before the end of the eviction ban all of our services were full…With the eviction ban lifting we are facing an unknown situation...We would have increased our bed numbers on the back of the cold weather period…We’ve expanded our existing services as much as we can.
The landlord began talking about selling last year, and is, Leila says, vocal about the fact the eviction ban prevented this. Angela hasn’t received a proper written eviction notice, says Leila, but because she is intimidated by him “she hasn’t the strength to argue with him or challenge him”. Some of the well-meaning advice Angela receives is completely unhelpful, says Leila. “‘You can go stay with a family member.’ Well, I rent with other people... My brother had to move out from Dublin because he had a partner and they had a child.”
As an activist with the campaign group Raise the Roof, Jessica would like to see a referendum on a right to housing, a ban on property hoarding and an end to HAP, which she says just uses taxpayers’ money to inflate rents. She thinks the State should refurbish vacant buildings . She believes the long-term answer is extensive State-built social housing. People’s homes, she says, should never have been mixed up with other people’s pension plans.
As we talk she consults a notebook with neatly-written notes and speaks with surprising calm. When I ask about her calmness she says she experiences “worry and leaping anxiety” but she also knows none of this is her fault. This is, she says, about fair access to housing, security of tenure and Government failure.failure…Otherwise intelligent, caring people [put] people in silos - the deserving poor, the undeserving poor. There’s no hierarchy of need here. It’s a structural issue.
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