There Are Over 2,000 Active HAP Tenancies In Kildare.

Friday, 14 May 2021 at 06:00

Figures released by the Department of Housing.

There are now 2,398 people and families in Kildare being housed under the Housing Assistance Payment scheme.

That is higher than in all surrounding counties, excepting Dublin.

Under HAP, tenants are accommodated by private landlords, rent is paid by the local authority and the tenant pays a contribution to the council.

Whilst just 477 HAP recipients in Kildare have transferred to other forms of social housing since 2016.

The bulk of those transfers, at 269, took place last year.

The table below shows the number of households at the end of 2020, broken down by local authority, who are in receipt of HAP support.

Local Authority	Total Active HAP Tenancies
Carlow County Council	743
Cavan County Council	429
Clare County Council	1,423
Cork City Council	3,133
Cork County Council	3,722
Donegal County Council	1,833
Dublin City Council	4,863
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council	735
Fingal County Council	2,089
Galway City Council	1,951
Galway County Council	1,428
Kerry County Council	1,623
Kildare County Council	2,398
Kilkenny County Council	854
Laois County Council	982
Leitrim County Council	293
Limerick City & County Council	2,442
Longford County Council	379
Louth County Council	3,280
Mayo County Council	1,356
Meath County Council	2,275
Monaghan County Council	628
Offaly County Council	877
Roscommon County Council	468
Sligo County Council	831
South Dublin County Council	2,936
Tipperary County Council	1,868
Waterford City & County Council	2,127
Westmeath County Council	1,014
Wexford County Council	1,613
Wicklow County Council	1,668
Subtotal	52,261
Dublin Regional Homeless Executive*	7,560
Grand Total	59,821

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