{"id":5194,"date":"2023-11-14T12:35:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T12:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5194"},"modified":"2023-11-14T12:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T12:35:14","slug":"government-must-ban-rent-increases-as-rents-continue-to-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/government-must-ban-rent-increases-as-rents-continue-to-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"Government must ban rent increases as rents continue to spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that a Government ban on rent increases in the private rental sector is the only realistic short term option as rents continue to spiral upwards. <br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cToday\u2019s Daft.ie report shows rents continuing to spiral upwards. New rents are up 4.4% in south county Dublin over the last 12 months.<br \/><br \/>\u201cAn average new rental in Dublin South West is now costing a staggering \u20ac2,602 a month. That is \u20ac31,224 a year. This is totally unaffordable for people on ordinary incomes.<br \/><br \/>\u201cRenters desperately need a break. It is time for Government to take up Sinn F\u00e9in&#8217;s proposal to ban rent increases for three years and to put a full month\u2019s rent back into every private renter\u2019s pocket through a refundable tax credit.<br \/><br \/>\u201cGovernment must also increase and accelerate the delivery of affordable rental and purchase homes. People suffering under the housing crisis can&#8217;t keep waiting for this out of touch government to act. The longer Fine Gael and Fianna F\u00e1il stay in office, the worse things are becoming.<br \/><br \/>\u201cWe also need at least 8,000 genuinely affordable homes a year across the state to meet current need as outlined in Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Alternative Housing Budget for 2024.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that a Government ban on rent increases in the private rental sector is the only realistic short term option as rents continue to spiral upwards. Teachta Crowe said: \u201cToday\u2019s Daft.ie report shows rents continuing to spiral upwards. New rents are up 4.4% in south [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}