Changes to legal aid for those in mortgage arrears will lead to more repossessions says IMHO CEO David Hall
Government again take away power for those in mortgage arrears and give it to the banks by diluting the legal aid given when appealing a bank veto insolvency arrangement.
The Government celebrated the Abhaile Scheme only on Monday of this week while in the background were butchering the legal aid for those facing repossession of their homes. Previously those seeking to do an insolvency arrangement with banks and Vulture funds to keep them in their homes could avail of legal aid for a...
Just 163 repossessed homes made available for social housing
Banks had offered 2,000 such properties to the Housing Agency under a new scheme
More than 2,000 repossessed homes have been offered by banks to the Housing Agency for social housing under a new scheme, but just 163 have been made available to tenants, new figures show.
Data provided to The Irish Times by the Housing Agency reveal that, since the end of 2016, it has been offered 2,096 properties to buy with a new €70 million “revolving fund”.
Of these dwellings, just 45 are now owned...
