Local authorities may provide financial support to Approved Housing Bodies to build or buy accommodation for social housing.
Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS)
Local authorities may provide financial support to Approved Housing Bodies to build or buy social housing for priority groups such as older people, homeless people or people with disabilities.
Choice Based Letting Scheme
Local authorities may offer choice to approved housing and transfer applicants in selecting a new home. Applicants can express an interest in houses which are advertised.
Local authorities may carry out extensions or adaptations to local authority houses such as grab rails, access ramps, wet rooms or downstairs bedrooms for older tenants or tenants with a disability.
Exceptional Social Grounds Scheme
Local authorities may support those in urgent need or difficult circumstances to apply for priority consideration for local authority housing.
Ground Rent Leasehold Purchase Scheme
Local authorities may let homeowners who bought their home from the local authority before May 1978 buy out the ground rent on the property.
Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Scheme
Local authorities may assist you in finding accommodation in the private market if you qualify for social housing. The local authority will pay the landlord and you will pay a rent contribution to the local authority.
Improvement Works in Lieu of Local Authority Housing Scheme
Local authorities may provide support to carry out improvement works to a privately owned property.
Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme
Local authorities, together with other agencies, may provide homes at a reduced price for first-time buyers who are looking to purchase a new or second-hand property or build their own home.
Local authorities may provide tenants and tenant purchasers a mortgage allowance to help them move from renting to buying or building a private house.
Mortgage to Rent Scheme
Local authorities may provide assistance to home owners with mortgage arrears who are at risk of losing their home. Home owners can apply to switch from owning their home to renting their home as social housing tenants.
Local authorities may provide accommodation to older people who find their private house too large for their current needs. They may either sell their house to the local authority or sell it privately and make a financial contribution to the local authority.
Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan Scheme
Local authorities may provide a mortgage to buy or build your own home if you are a first time buyer.
Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS)
Local authorities may assist you in finding accommodation in the private market if you qualify for long term rent supplement and have a qualified housing need. The local authority will pay the landlord and you will pay a rent contribution to the local authority.
Repair and Leasing Scheme
Local authorities may provide financial support to property owners to repair vacant properties. The property is repaired and leased to the local authority at a reduced cost.
You can notify a local authority about issues with vacant private homes and vacant local authority homes.
You can apply for a Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant
Local authorities investigate antisocial behaviour involving local authority tenants. If necessary, they may involve An Garda Síochána (national police).
Home owners who purchased their house through a local authority purchase scheme must get permission from the local authority to sell, re-mortgage or transfer their interest in the property for the first time.
Deed of Discharge Certificate
Local authority mortgage holders who have paid their mortgage in full can apply to the local authority for a certificate to confirm that the property deeds have been transferred.
Demountable Dwellings
Local authorities may provide demountable dwellings such as mobile homes, prefabs or portacabins to those living in extremely poor conditions.
Housing Needs Assessment
Local authorities assess applications for social housing based on housing need. Approved applicants are placed on the housing list which is reviewed each year.
Local authorities may support tenants to transfer to another local authority house.
Housing Welfare Support
Local authorities may offer housing welfare support to vulnerable tenants who may be in rent or mortgage arrears or experiencing difficulty with their tenancy or living conditions.
Local Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committees
Local authorities may form committees to consult with travellers about the Traveller Accommodation Programme.
Low Cost Housing Sites Scheme
Local authorities may provide sites at a low cost to help those with a housing need build their own homes.
Permission to Reside Request
Local authorities may support someone to move in with an existing tenant in a local authority property.
Local authorities, together with the Department of Justice, may provide housing to those in the Irish Refugee Protection Programme.
Repossessions and Evictions
Local authorities may apply to the courts to evict tenants or repossess properties where agreement on paying rent arrears or mortgage arrears is unsuccessful.
Safe Homes Ireland Information and Advice
Local authorities may provide information and advice to returning Irish emigrants on how to apply for housing in Ireland.
Shared Ownership Loan Rental Subsidy
Local authorities may provide a rental subsidy to mortgage holders with shared ownership loans.
Social Housing Support
Local authorities may provide social housing to you if you qualify and cannot afford to rent or buy your own home.
Local authorities, together with other agencies, may provide a warm and safe place to sleep for rough sleepers during spells of extremely cold weather.
Homeless Emergency Accommodation Support
Local authorities may provide emergency accommodation to those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
Homeless Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Place Finder Support
Local authorities may provide accommodation deposits or advance rental payments to those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
Homeless Transitional Accommodation Support
Local authorities may provide short and medium term accommodation support to prepare for independent living.
Homelessness Information and Advice
Local authorities may provide information and advice to those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
Local authorities may provide grants to older people who own their own home for repairs or improvement works to make their privately owned home more suitable to their needs.
Local authorities may provide grants to those who own their own home to buy and install grab rails, level access showers, access ramps and stair lifts.
Local authorities may carry out approved energy upgrade works to local authority houses such as cavity or external wall insulation, new windows and doors, central heating and attic insulation.
Social Housing Cleaning and Caretaking
Local authorities may provide cleaning or caretaking of social housing flat complexes and traveller accommodation units.
Voids Management
Local authorities manage and repair vacant properties before reletting them to tenants.
Local Authority Plans
Housing Disability Strategy Consultation
Local authorities prepare housing strategies for people with disabilities. You can have an input into the strategies through consultation.