Search Results for 'Housing Strategic Policy Committee'
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Councillors engage election mode at feisty meeting at City Hall
With only three – or maybe even just two – full Galway City Council meetings left before the local elections this June, councillors were most definitely in election mode at City Hall this week.
Pyrite "is coming to every corner of this county and it is going to come in a big, big way" - Cruise
Foxford based Fine Gael councillor Neil Cruise has issued a stark warning to councillors in all areas of the county that the effects of pyrite in homes, will be coming to their areas, if it has not affected them already.
Thirty Mayo households currently in emergency accommodation
Thirty households in Mayo are currently being homed in emergency accommodation.
Pyrite remedial scheme welcome news for 350 Mayo home owners
The details of a pyrite remedial scheme for up to 350 north Mayo households was welcomed by elected members of Mayo County Council this week.
Home for Life scheme could help those in mortgage arrears
Home for Life - the state-backed mortgage to rent finance scheme - has the potential to help a number of the 578 cases in Mayo reported to have over 720 days of mortgage arrears, according to the company's CEO. At the Housing Strategic Policy Committee of Mayo County Council this week, Home for Life's chief executive officer, Paul Cunningham, suggested that these arrears cases, which the Central Bank's Long-Term Mortgage Arrears in Ireland Report note as being 'in serious mortgage arrears', could be helped by the scheme.
224 people have presented as homeless to Mayo County Council this year
Over 220 people have presented themselves as homeless to Mayo County Council already this year.
Homeless presentations on the rise in Mayo
The issue of homeless presentations continues to grow for Mayo County Council with all 10 of the council's emergency accommodation units currently full.
Mark Lohan co-opted to Galway City Council
Mark Lohan has been officially co-opted on to Galway City Council to take the city central seat left vacant following the resignation of Anna Marley in August. Councillor Lohan is well known in the city through his work as a trade union official with SIPTU.
Process to get proper figure on housing need under way in the county
Mayo County Council has begun a process to try and establish the exact housing need in the county. They have written to everyone who is currently on the housing list in the county to establish if all of those on the list are still in need of social housing, with a return deadline of September 21 this year.
