‘I can’t sleep. I can’t eat’: south Dublin family facing eviction due to apartment management fee

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Housing crisis: Family and landlord’s representative say council backed out of tenant-in-situ purchase due to €3,600 annual fee

Apartment owners must, under law, pay annual management fees for the maintenance of their apartment complex. Bashir’s landlord paid the fee for his apartment. The council also owns several apartments in the Beacon development that would be subject to similar annual charges.

'I offered to pay half the fee. I am a taxi driver and I could work more hours. But they still said no.' Above, Bashir Barat and his family. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw In an email exchange with Barat, the council responded: “Regrettably tenants sharing the cost of management fees is not possible.”He lodged an appeal with the council but was told its position had not changed and he should contact the city council so that a homeless assessment could be carried out.

Cody presumed the council was working through the sales process, but unexpectedly, about three weeks ago, he got a call to say the deal was off. The Department of Housing in March issued new targets to local authorities to buy 1,500 homes this year from landlords who have given notice to tenants who are in receipt of State supports such as the housing assistance payment or are in the rental accommodation scheme .

 

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