Written answers
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
Local Authority Housing
5:00 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 33: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the use of choice based lettings by local authorities in the provision of housing in situations in which a unit has been turned down a number of times. [24109/11]
Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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The Social Housing Allocation Regulations give each housing authority the option of including choice-based letting as a means of allocating dwellings in its allocation scheme under section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009. The Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency has advised housing authorities on my behalf that choice-based letting can be a useful approach to letting properties which were previously difficult to let. Under the Regulations, it is a matter for individual authorities whether to use choice-based letting and to determine which classes of dwelling it will designate for allocation in this way.
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