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>Cllr O’Rourke said some applicants had turned down houses because they were “in a council estate,” “did not have a back garden,” or because the applicant “wanted one of the new” houses.
A striking thing is that there were 14 refusals in 2025 (so far), and after review by the council housing department, it found that all 14 were “unreasonable”. So basically every refusal in 2025 was people holding out for something better.
I don’t know what happens if you refuse a house on the housing list and it’s for a BS reason, are you put to the back of the list or do you just keep getting first refusal on new houses? I’m leaning towards the latter because the story mentions that someone refused two houses in 2025.
If a person refuses without a serious reason they should be removed from the list and not allowed reapply. Beggars cannot be choosers.
I am a strong supporter of council housing but this pisses me off.
Very simple solution, you get offered a house and unless it is seriously unsuitable for your need you either accept it or you are removed from the list for a year and then you start from scratch.
I would even go as far as removing any rent subsidies people are getting if they refuse a social house.
Some people are crazily entitled, have their whole life funded by the state yet it’s never enough/good enough for them
Some people are crazily entitled, have their whole life funded by the state yet it’s never enough/good enough for them
Haha. You’ve hit to laugh. These people were raised to believe they’re entitled to get everything free simply because they exist. Their parents got the free stuff and so they’re brought up to believe that’s the norm. I have a neighbour paying €28 a week in a 3-bed 2-bathroom house on his own. Another person I know lives in a 3-bed too, also alone, paying a pittance. In both cases the parents died and they simply stayed on. It’s insane. They should be moved up smaller accommodation and those houses given to families of 4-5+. They’re both strong healthy middle aged people. Another one moved in with her boyfriend to his practically free council house 5 years ago and has been renting out her own council houses to 7 immigrants since getting €2800 a month. All of them complain a lot about “de politishins and de forruners”. Meanwhile I’ll have to work until I’m 72 to pay my mortgage. It’s f**ked up.
Nothing like some good class based rage bait of a Thursday afternoon 😎
Another post set to turn us all classist. Really boils down to if they rejected on grounds that were reasonable. No back garden? Well they might have kids with additional needs or just in general kids need open spaces. This all needs criticism on a granular level.
This article made me inspired to try and work harder for sure…
Can i just say that most council staff are dying to say “well **** off then” when people get needlessly picky over their housing offer, the problem is the regulations/legislation dont allow the council to stop making offers to picky people.
I think there should only be one offer, unless the person can prove theres something unsuitable for them about the property, such as somebody who cant drive been given a rural house or a wheelchair user getting a 2nd floor apartment with no lift etc..
I’ve actually noticed a slowdown in the “look at what the poors are doing” shit on here. I guess now that the elections are over and the government have to get on with the business of fucking us all we’ll be needing someone to punch down onto.
Beggars can be choosers ?
You should not be able to refuse a house of good quality and with enough bedrooms for you.
>Further figures showed that was a rise in the number of refusals compared to the previous two years. The number of refusals in MDAM in 2023 was 21, while in 2022 it was eight, giving a total of 29
Surely that’s a decline..
I’ve been homeless and on the waiting list for an offer.
Utter cunts turn down an offer in this day and age considering what it takes to get any offer at all.
Entitled, selfish and blinkered cunts.
I could go on, but what’s the point?
This is just another government attempt to blame homeless people for being homeless.
Folks refuse housing for lots of reasons which you may or may not find reasonable. Years ago I had a friend in the US who had to move across a town in order to get housing assistance. She had a place, but it wasn’t covered by the housing payment system. So she was moved to a more expensive place. But then she needed help paying for a taxi to work. All in all it made it harder to pull out of her financial difficulties.
Poor people are still people. They have constraints besides housing. They live near a support network or near a job or near certain shops. Giving them housing sounds great, but if it makes their lives harder in some other way, then it’s not really helping, is it?
There’s a system for refusal for a reason. Let it work and stop being judgemental pricks about it.
The real issue is that we’re not building enough houses. That’s what needs to be addressed. Stop fucking punching down.
There are more people upset about these refusals in the comments here than there were refusals in that area over that two year period the article mentions 🤣
If all councils implemented Choice Based Letting this issue would disappear.
These are the same people that will say that immigrants steal their houses. 💀
As far as I am aware if you refuse the 1st and 2nd offer you have to take the third otherwise you go back on the waiting list? Either way in this day and age why would you refuse a house especially if you have kids, unless it is does not suit your needs
You should get zero refusals.
I try not to take this stuff to heart, but I moved four counties away from my siblings, friends, office, and the city I’d lived in for nearly twenty years so that I could buy an apartment the size of a microwave.
It is a little hard to stomach stuff like this. Particularly given this is only Westmeath. Plenty more where these came from, and I suspect their lists are far from the worst.
It’s worth remembering that the council will consider it an unreasonable refusal even if they are offering you a house beside the biggest cunts in the town.
A family in my town ran everyone out of the house beside them. Nobody would live beside them so the council ended up letting one of their family live in it. Council choose the easy option instead of evicting them as they should have.
Ah no, I won’t bother collecting my winning lottery prize sure.