Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The slovenly and and the well managed housing renters among Irish local authorities?

Are you in the market for local authority housing?  If you also happen to be not so inclined to pay the rent you ought to rent a house from one of the more slovenly county or city councils whose debt debt collection competence is weak.  But if you are an on-time payer there are other housing providers that are likely to warmly welcome you.

There are two issues to be concerned about are:

Which councils will allow housing rent arrears to build up?

Which councils will most likely write-off arrears outstanding?


Ten Councils Most Tolerant of Rent Arrears

These ten allowed arrears of almost €35 million to build up at the start of 2010 – equivalent to more than 25% of the total housing rents collectible in 2010

 

JURISDICTION ARREARS OF HOUSING RENT,
to Jan 2010
ARREARS % HOUSING RENT ACCRUED 
for 2010
Galway City €1,855,044 31.5%
South Dublin €5,981,156 27.5%
Dublin City €19,526,762 26.5%
Mayo €900,145 22.6%
Roscommon €708,301 22.5%
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown €2,706,951 21.3%
Westmeath €720,808 19.5%
Kildare €2,706,951 18.0%
Waterford City €1,144,964 17.8%
TOTAL €34,957,620 25.4%

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

Ten Councils Least Tolerant of Rent Arrears

These ten collect what’s owing on time with little wriggle room for skiving and scrounging

 

JURISDICTION

ARREAR OF HOUSING RENT,
to Jan 2010
ARREARS % HOUSING RENT ACCRUED 
for 2010
Monaghan €59,426 2.1%
Wicklow €182,975 3.3%
North Tipperary €87,774 3.5%
Fingal €620,924 4.5%
Kerry €272,898 4.6%
Wexford €381,659 5.0%
South Tipperary €153,327 5.3%
Laois €240,193 5.4%
Carlow €187,830 6.2%
Co Waterford €183,596 6.7%
TOTAL €2,370,637 4.6%
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
If you are unfortunate enough to incur a build-up of arrears then it is important to know which council is most likely to write off what is outstanding.
 
Councils Offering Most Generous Rent Write-Offs
 

JURISDICTION

HOUSING RENT ARREARS WRITTEN OFF IN 2010 MOST GENEROUS WRITE OFFS AND WAIVERS,
IN 2010
Limerick City €236,604 35.1%
Carlow €35,839 19.1%
Monaghan €10,358 17.4%
Westmeath €116,732 16.2%
Waterford City €185,119 16.2%
Roscommon €112,733 15.9%
Wexford €56,412 14.8%
Wicklow €21,042 11.5%
Galway €66,207 9.2%
Meath €54,286 8.3%
TOTAL €895,332 18.7%
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Councils Offering the Least Generous Rent Write-Offs, or none

JURISDICTION

HOUSING RENT ARREARS WRITTEN OFF
IN 2010

LEAST GENEROUS WRITE OFFS AND WAIVERS, IN 2010

Waterford

€0

0%

Fingal

€0

0%

Cork City

€0

0%

Offaly

€655

0.2%

Clare

€2,781

0.4%

North Tipperary

€786

0.9%

Sligo

€3,279

1.1%

Louth

€4,375

1.5%

Mayo

€14,682

1.6%

Longford

€10,654

1.7%

TOTAL

€96,812

0.2%

 

The award for the softest touch councils housing departments, based on allowing arrears build up and then offering generous write offs goes to Co Roscommon, Co Westmeath and Waterford City Councils.

If you pay rent and don’t accrue arrears you will be most welcomed by Fingal, and Waterford County Councils.

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