Dublin City Council has announced it cannot continue its Financial Contribution Scheme due to government cutbacks, impacting its ability to acquire homes from older people for social housing. This scheme helped increase the supply of needed two and three-bedroom homes while allowing seniors to downsize. Sinn Féin councillor MÃcheál Mac Donncha condemned the funding reductions, linking them to a wider housing crisis in Dublin, which currently sees nearly 11,000 homeless individuals, including over 3,400 children, exacerbated by cuts affecting other successful housing initiatives.
"The Government cuts to housing funding for Dublin City Council continue to cause damage," Sinn Féin councillor MÃcheál Mac Donncha said.
"We learned this week that due to the cuts, the council cannot operate its scheme whereby it purchases homes from qualifying older people and houses them in council accommodation."
"These are the same cuts to funding for housing acquisitions that have hit the very successful tenant-in-situ scheme. That scheme kept hundreds of families out of homelessness."
"Of course that is the tip of the iceberg of the housing crisis as many, many thousands more are denied the right to decent housing, paying sky-high rents and unable to access either social or affordable homes."
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