Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 30 April 2014
464. Deputy Áine Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm whether a person who has received notification from a building society that the mortgage is unsustainable and the home must be sold is entitled to apply for inclusion on the council social housing list. [18939/14]
View answerFor a household to qualify for social housing support a housing authority must carry out an assessment to establish whether the household is in need of housing and meets certain eligibility criteria, including income limits. As part of a concerted effort to deal with the issue of mortgage arrears, the Social Housing Assessment Regulations were amended in 2011 to provide that a household may be determined to be in need of housing if it has a mortgage that is deemed to be unsustainable under the Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process.
