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Finally Some Coverage Of The Rent Allowance Debacle

category national | housing | opinion/analysis author Wednesday July 11, 2012 14:37author by lefty Report this post to the editors

Cutting rent supplement has allowed the FG/Labour government to continue to make large cuts to the social welfare budget whilst claiming not to be touching "basic social welfare rates". The reality is that because it is left to tenants to negotiate with their landlords for a rent reduction, rather than such negotiations being undertaken by the department itself, this is rather like David negotiating with goliath and the tenant inevitably has to pay the not inconsiderable difference out of their already reduced social welfare payment.
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For this reason, I was glad to see this issue being addressed, albeit in a limited fashion by the Vincent Browne program this Tuesday on TV3. Vincent did an interview with a lady and her family who were facing eviction as a result of a failed negotiation with their landlord. This poor woman's plight is only one example of the large number of people put in a similarly stressful situation and facing potential homelessness by this cynical policy of robbing the weakest in society to pay the banksters and bolster the future coffers of NAMA developers and landlords, rather than commandeering the estimated 230,000 vacant houses currently in the states in the ownership of NAMA and the banks (which we own) to house the 93,000 people currently on the housing list.

Richard Boyd Barrett explains the situation in the program and exposes the total capitalist government/developer scam that is the RAS (rental accomodation scheme)

watch it here:

http://www.tv3.ie/3player/show/41/50692/1/Tonight-with-...rowne

Some related links:
Letter to times
wexford people article
moneyguideireland maximum rent supplement rates table
moneyguideireland: rent-allowance-cut-in-budget-2012
Irish examiner article

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Vincent Browne: Rent Allowance: Social Protection blinkered     Phoenix    Wed Jul 11, 2012 13:27 
   '..why now can we not..?'     opus diablos    Wed Jul 11, 2012 17:29 
   Right-Click . . Save As     Anti-CIA Propaganda    Wed Jul 11, 2012 18:20 
   Our Government needs to change course, or be replaced ...     W. Finnerty    Wed Jul 11, 2012 18:28 
   Just introduce rent controls. Rents have gone mad anyway. High upward only rents are damaging enterprise and the fabric of society in general     lefty    Wed Jul 11, 2012 20:19 
   No surprise     Des    Wed Jul 11, 2012 22:19 
   cuts in rental allowance, ghost estates, rack renting landlords     nicholas byrne    Thu Jul 12, 2012 14:42 


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