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To: Richard Shakespeare (Chief Executive Dublin City Council) and Minister James Browne
DCC Stop the Rent Hikes - Irish Government Fund Our Councils to Fix Our Homes!
We demand:
- That Dublin City Council immediately drop plans to increase rents.
- That the Irish Government fully fund Dublin City Council and all local authorities to carry out housing maintenance, repairs, and retrofitting - ideally by direct labour employment
- That local authority housing be treated as a public good, not a business.
Why is this important?
Public housing is the foundation of a fair city.
Every tenant — every person — has a right to a warm, safe, affordable home.
The proposed overhaul of the differential rent scheme would mean rent increases for almost all of the city’s 68,000 council tenants, with some families facing hikes of close to 40%, amounting to hundreds of euro every month.
Every tenant — every person — has a right to a warm, safe, affordable home.
The proposed overhaul of the differential rent scheme would mean rent increases for almost all of the city’s 68,000 council tenants, with some families facing hikes of close to 40%, amounting to hundreds of euro every month.
These blanket increases would hit everyone - tenants in new, A-rated homes and those living in old, cold, damp flats alike.
Council tenants didn’t create the housing maintenance funding gap. It’s the result of decades of government underfunding of Dublin City Council and the refusal to invest in public housing. Now, instead of properly funding our council to carry out repairs and maintenance, management want tenants to pay the price.
This is happening in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, where:
- Over 300,000 nationally were in arrears on their electricity bills and 175,000 were in arrears on their gas bills.
- Grocery and heating costs are rising every month, and
- Families across the city are already at breaking point.
Working-class tenants cannot and should not be made to pay more for housing that is often substandard! No Way Wont Pay!