THERE are no homes available to those in receipt of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) in Limerick city or suburbs.
This comes as only 41 homes in all of Ireland were available to HAP recipients during a period of March.
Just four were available through standard HAP limits, with the rest falling into ‘discretionary’ limits.
The majority of HAP-available homes during the period were in Dublin (31).
None were available in Limerick city or suburbs, Sligo town, Waterford city centre, Portlaoise, Galway city centre, Leitrim, Athlone, or Cork city centre and suburbs.
The figures come from the Simon Community’s ‘Locked Out of the Market’ report for March, which examines the experience of people on low incomes accessing housing on the private rental market.
