{"id":5396,"date":"2025-03-20T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:29:00","slug":"tenant-in-situ-scheme-has-saved-2500-families-from-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/tenant-in-situ-scheme-has-saved-2500-families-from-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenant in situ scheme has saved 2,500 families from homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that the Tenant In Situ Scheme is a lifeline for families that are at risk of homelessness and gives certainty to landlords who wish to exit the market. <br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe said that the failure of the Government to fund the scheme this year shows a startling lack of urgency when it comes to getting the scheme back up and running. <br \/><br \/>Speaking after the Sinn F\u00e9in motion on protecting and ensuring funding for the scheme in the D\u00e1il last night, Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cThis government seems to take every opportunity it can to make the housing crisis worse. <br \/><br \/>\u201cSince April 2023, the social housing tenant-in-situ scheme has saved around 2,500 households from being made homeless. <br \/><br \/>\u201cFamilies with children, couples and single people, including pensioners, have been prevented from long stays in emergency accommodation as councils were able to buy their private rental homes.<br \/><br \/>\u201cSince January, this scheme has been suspended to new applications due to the failure of the outgoing government to agree funding allocations for 2025. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThe new government has shown a startling lack of urgency when it comes to getting the scheme back up and running. <br \/><br \/>\u201cIf this scheme is done away with, this government will have put thousands of renters at serious risk of being made homeless.<br \/><br \/>\u201cAlmost 17 thousand eviction notices were issued to private rental tenants last year, with more than half of those on the grounds of landlords intending to sell the property. <br \/><br \/>\u201cIf we are not going to build social housing on public lands, then we can at least ensure that the tenant in situ scheme prevents renters being thrown out onto the street and into emergency accommodation that the state is already spending hundreds of million on each year. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThe government must properly fund the tenant-in-situ scheme and allow local authorities maximum flexibility on how it is operated.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThis is a vital homeless prevention support that is working and should be allowed to continue as it has for the past two years.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that the Tenant In Situ Scheme is a lifeline for families that are at risk of homelessness and gives certainty to landlords who wish to exit the market. Teachta Crowe said that the failure of the Government to fund the scheme this year shows [&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-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5397,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}