Gli inquilini del Comune di Dublino dovranno affrontare aumenti dell’affitto fino al 50% nella prima ristrutturazione in 30 anni

For reference 1000 eur net per week is approx 70k per year gross.

Good, I do find it amusing that Mannix flynn is complaining about the council fixing problems “caused by the council” when he’s been a member of said council for the last 16 years.

The whole self employed “assumed income of 700 per week” though is utterly weird

The entire system needs an overhaul. The house shouldn’t be for life. There’s no sense in giving a 3 or 4 bed house to someone with 3 kids, then the kids grow up and move on and 1 person is left living in a 3 bed. They should be moved into a 1 bed apartment and make the house available again to a family. And more oven than not it’s a generational thing where the kids grow ups have kids and expect another free house.

That’s only the start: it should be reviewed every 5 years and if their circumstances change they should be either evicted or the rent increased to market value. Too many single people with kids getting “free” houses and 3 years later they are married with a brand new car outside the door.

*The move comes after an analysis of tenant incomes found more than a fifth of council households have an after-tax income greater than €1,000 a week but are paying heavily subsidised rents, with the average charge across the scheme €83 per week.*

*The council also plans to increase the assessable income of self-employed tenants. Currently, taxi drivers and other “non-trade” businesses are assessed on an “assumed net income” of €500 a week, whiles tradespeople – plumbers, electricians, etc – are assumed to have a net income of €560 a week. This will be increased to €700 for all self-employed tenants.*

*Of the council’s stock of just over 26,000 flats and houses, 5,854 are occupied by households with net incomes of more than €1,000 a week.*

Basically, if you get a council house, you win the Lotto in this country