# Housing Assistance Payment
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Last week
14th April 2024 - 20th April 2024
This year
2024
hap
Over 70 households facing eviction in Westmeath as politicians urge coordinated councils response
23 Jan
23.7k
34
Last year
2023
Housing Crisis
Record low number of properties available for people accessing HAP
30 Mar 2023
12.6k
42
High Court
Family challenges court's finding that Cork hotel did not discriminate against them
13 Mar 2023
42.6k
Housing Assistance Payment
There were just 41 properties available to rent for people accessing HAP last month
13 Jan 2023
9.2k
17
All time
Housing
HAP discretion rate changes for the first time in 6 years, increasing to 35%
3 Jun 2022
23.6k
32
Housing Assistance Payment
Dublin Lord Mayor to tell Housing Minister that HAP scheme should include a deposit for tenants
8 Dec 2021
22.9k
39
hap
Report finds 79% drop in number of affordable rental properties available in just three months
18 Nov 2021
11.1k
41
Threshold
HAP tenants struggling to buy food after paying rent top-ups to landlords, committee hears
15 Dec 2020
34.4k
82
locked out
Just 5.5% of rental housing is within standard HAP limits, according to new report
13 Jan 2020
19.2k
42
Annual Report
Housing benefit recipients face 'systemic discrimination', Irish human rights body says
24 Jun 2019
12.5k
39
Explainer
Here's why tenants can take discrimination cases against landlords at the Workplace Relations Commission
22 Apr 2019
35.7k
40
Housing
Just 8% of rental properties are available in Ireland within rent support limits
4 Mar 2019
13.7k
31
crisis
Reliance on government support by renters likely to increase after Brexit
13 Nov 2018
11.1k
38
Housing Assistance Payment
Tenant who took landlord to Workplace Relations Commission over refusal to accept HAP awarded €7k
9 Nov 2018
23.6k
incentivise
Local authorities offering letting agents €500 fee to house tenants under Hap scheme
1 Nov 2018
23.8k
74
moved out
'Humiliated, belittled, embarassed': Woman awarded €4.2k over Hap discrimination
21 Aug 2018
66.0k
62
Homelessness
Dublin City Council proposing to stop prioritising homeless families for housing lists
8 Mar 2018
28.8k
91
private rental sector
'A chronic over-reliance': 76% of social housing came from the private rental sector last year
16 Jan 2018
9.0k
71
rental supplements
Flat search: Not one property available to rent for a person on rent supplement
11 Dec 2017
21.0k
94
housing assistance
Tenants awarded 'substantial compensation' for discrimination by landlord
21 Aug 2017
61.0k
74
homelessness crisis
Locked out: Most people on housing benefits still can't afford to rent
16 Aug 2017
15.1k
105
housing trouble
'I'm at the end of my rope': Mother with severely disabled child desperately trying to find somewhere to live
2 Jul 2017
39.3k
49
unsecure tenancy
Pregnant mother of four soon to be homeless as landlord is selling home
18 Apr 2017
31.5k
84