CHANGES TO ALLOCATION PRIORITIES FOR CITY COUNCIL HOUSES

Date Published: 11-Mar-2008

Galway City Council is to take a more wholistic approach to the housing waiting lists, as people can be on either or both social and affordable lists

From the first of April the Affordable Housing Allocation Scheme is to be changed to a TIME based scheme – it’s currently a POINTS based scheme

However the Housing Special Policy Committee has yet to thrash out the finer details of the changeover, so there’s a satisfactory and fair transfer

Also, with immediate effect an applicant who moves from one housing scheme waiting list to another will be given credit for the time spent on either