Agenda

• Update on Housing SPC Sub-Groups
• Regeneration Update
• Homeless Update
• Traveller Accommodation Update

Referred Motion from Cllr Cieran Perry:

Order: Refer to Housing SPC

That this area committee seeks that the Housing SPC places on its agenda a discussion about Dublin City Council ends the practice of removing applicants from the housing allocations list if they have not responded to Dublin City Council correspondence before additional efforts have been made to contact the applicant by telephone and/or e mail.

Order: Agreed. Refer to Housing SPC

That this Council recognises that Women and Children are made Homeless by Domestic Violence.  In 2014 513 referrals were made from Women’s Aid to refugees with 137 refuges citing that they were full therefore no accommodation was available.

Women cannot move on from refuges as there is no alternative accommodation available therefore creating a shortage of spaces in centres and in many cases forcing the victim to remain in the abusive home.

This Council needs to ensure that suitable, safe and secure accommodation is available for victims of domestic violence and that they are rehoused as a matter of priority.  

Order: Refer to Housing SPC

That this SPC supports the use of modular,factory-built housing as a means of providing good quality and secure living facilities for homeless families including young children currently in Emergency hotel/B&B accommodation in Dublin

Report on the Part VIIIproposed amalgamation of 12 no. bedsits, into 6 no. 1-bed apartments at the Senior Citizens Complex, St. Vincent's Court, (Block 2, nos. 9-20), Collins Avenue, Dublin 9. The amalgamation of the apartments results in minor alterations to the north facing elevation. All other elevations remain unaltered. There are minor external works for the provision of level access to all ground floor apartments.

Order: Agreed. Refer to Housing SPC. Concerns regarding amalgamation of bedsits in Senior Citizens complex will lead to a decrease in units available.

This Housing SPC committee agrees that the site known as "1b" in St. Michael's Estate be used only for social housing with a preference for a Senior Citizens complex and calls on the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to release funds for work to start on this site.

Site 1b is between Richmond Barracks and Thornton Heights and building on it would complete that section of St. Michael's Estate. Guaranteeing that this site be used for a Senior Citizen Complex is in the best wishes of the local community

That the Chief Executive outlines what plans there are to deal with the high percentage of single unit applications on the Dublin City Council Housing List.

How many applications compared to the total housing list are for single units at present and what numbers of single unit dwellings does the City Council have on their books currently?