Thousands of households are facing eviction, here are some of their stories.
IN ONE WEEK’S time, on Saturday the first of April, the winter eviction ban will end, plunging thousands of households into rental insecurity.
This will affect thousands of households. While the exact number is unclear, latest figures from the RTB show that 4,741 notices of termination were issued between July and September of last year, just before the ban came into place, with lots more likely to have been served since then. Monica said she contacted her landlord over a leak in her home, and when they responded they requested that she leave the home in the summer, as they will be selling the property.
She said she has scoured the area for a home to live in. She has checked websites, asked friends, requested in local WhatsApp and Facebook groups, but nothing has come available. Meanwhile, there are hundreds of properties in the area listed on short-term let website AirBnB. She said the Tenant in Situ Scheme could be an option. This is a government scheme in which a local authority purchases a home that is being sold to make sure the tenants can remain living there. The council then rents it back to the tenants at social housing rates.
“It’s an absolutely basic requirement for life to have shelter and I don’t feel like I have that sorted. Saoirse lives with her husband and three small children under the age of five in a house in north county Dublin. The family were served with an eviction notice in October last year, just before the eviction ban came into effect, as their landlord is selling their home.Saoirse is in receipt of the Housing Assistance Payment , which is a form of rental support. She is originally from Clondalkin, but was unable to find anywhere to live there and so moved to Dublin Fingal.
I would accept or take a place in so many different areas. I’m not fussy, I just want somewhere to live. Saoirse and her husband were hoping that Fingal County Council would step in and purchase the house from her landlord under the Tenant in Situ Scheme. “Obviously I have been looking far and wide and I can’t even get a viewing, never mind on a list,” he said.
He has tried to get on his local Social Housing Waiting List, but has been informed there is a 14 week waiting period for processing the paperwork. Go to live in invisible emergency accommodation? Go and live in the living room of my old parents’ house? “It’s absolutely insane how the period of time during the eviction notice was just left. What did they do? They did nothing. It’s unbelievable.”
And then it turns out that that few weeks becomes a few months, because there’s no properties available. The whole thing is quite stressful, you end up not sleeping. Read Next Related Reads Ending eviction ban will see 'levels of homelessness nobody thought possible', Dáil told FactFind: How effective was the eviction ban in reducing homelessness?
It’s insane. TheJournal.ie contacted the landlord of Tathony House for comment but had received no response at the time of publication.Joe has been living in a two-bed rented house in south Dublin for the past nine years. His tenancy is through the Rental Accommodation Scheme . He says he was told initially that the council would not be able to help him and he may become homeless. Now, he said they may be able to secure a one bedroom apartment for him, but that will not meet his needs. James has two dogs who he considers a lifeline to him.
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