Almost 3,000 Social Housing Tenants In Kildare, Exclusive Of Local Authority Tenants.

Saturday, 18 September 2021 09:15

By Ciara Plunkett @plunkettciara

That's according to data from the Dept. of Housing.

There are almost 3,000 social housing tenants in Kildare who are not direct tenants of Kildare County Council.

The Dept. of Housing says, at the end of March, 2,375 households were in receipt of the Housing Assistance Payment.

427 households were being paid the Rental Assistance Scheme.

118 households in the county are living in homes rented by an Approved Housing Body on a long-term lease.

These figures do not include people and families living in Kildare County Council owned homes

Local Authority	HAP	RAS	AHB long term leases under SHCEP	Total
Carlow County Council	734	457	0	1,191
Cavan County Council	448	522	22	992
Clare County Council	1,422	384	39	1,845
Cork City Council	3,187	879	29	4,095
Cork County Council	3,740	719	1	4,460
Donegal County Council	1,855	504	120	2,479
Dublin City Council	5,120	1,684	183	6,987
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council	797	521	5	1,323
Fingal County Council	2,188	513	2	2,703
Galway City Council	1,989	398	0	2,387
Galway County Council	1,477	352	16	1,845
Kerry County Council	1,681	852	69	2,602
Kildare County Council	2,375	427	118	2,920
Kilkenny County Council	852	946	0	1,798
Laois County Council	986	206	85	1,277
Leitrim County Council	305	103	0	408
Limerick City & County Council	2,488	1,263	64	3,815
Longford County Council	379	201	10	590
Louth County Council	3,301	144	11	3,456
Mayo County Council	1,374	800	0	2,174
Meath County Council	2,287	376	77	2,740
Monaghan County Council	615	161	0	776
Offaly County Council	867	135	3	1,005
Roscommon County Council	468	383	0	851
Sligo County Council	843	503	16	1,362
South Dublin County Council	2,977	1,015	16	4,008
Tipperary County Council	1,878	1,053	11	2,942
Waterford City & County Council	2,172	674	11	2,857
Westmeath County Council	1,022	531	16	1,569
Wexford County Council	1,633	526	20	2,179
Wicklow County Council	1,686	275	8	1,970
Dublin Regional Homeless Executive (DRHE)*	8,166	-	-	81,66
TOTAL	61,312	17,507	952	79,771

*DRHE is operating Homeless HAP on behalf of the four Dublin Local Authorities

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