Tag: Social housing
Calls to replace key Council worker as elderly ‘left vulnerable’ in...
"I know of one elderly man living alone in a council house who could not sleep for two weeks because the battery in his...
Housing tops the Laois priority list for 2020
With just over €78 million at its disposal Laois County Council has set out its stall and agreed on its spending priorities for next...
Effort to block apartments in Portlaoise development fails
Despite extensive objections from numerous residents in the area, Laois County Council have sanctioned plans for a new social housing development on the Abbeyleix...
Laois social housing adaption works 2019 funding slashed to two-thirds of...
It has been revealed that the 2019 allocation for adaption works to the social housing stock within the county is €242,000.
This is a reduction...
Social Housing threshold leaving ‘Laois families in limbo’
Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley has hit out at what he calls 'outdated social housing income thresholds that are leaving Laois families in Limbo'.
The...
No council homes built in Laois despite housing crisis
Only 2,500 of the 13,400 social homes needed to help ease the housing and homelessness crisis have been built.
And the Irish Independent reports that...