Rent Controls

People Before Profit Table Emergency Motion to Reverse Dublin City Council Rent Hikes

An emergency motion for tonight’s Dublin City Council meeting calls for the immediate reversal of the rent increases imposed on council tenants, HAP tenants, RAS tenants and some Approved Housing Body tenants. Our Councillors support the demonstration by CATU members outside City Hall from 5:30pm.

Galway West By-Election Candidate Launch 13 April 7pm

Denman Rooke kicks off his campaign as People Before Profit's representative in Galway West on Monday.

Gerry Carroll’s People's Housing Bill: the Tenant Protections Stormont Refuses to Deliver

"Rents in Belfast have risen by more than 50% over the past five years. Private tenants are increasingly expected to pay eyewatering sums for homes that are cramped, in a poor state of disrepair or riddled with mould." We need this passed now.

End The Cost-Of-Living Crisis - Join The Affordable Ireland Campaign

Paul Murphy says "The Government acts like Robin Hood in reverse - stealing from the poor to give to the rich. It is not because it does not have the money." Next week, People Before Profit, Sinn Féin, Social Democrats, Labour Party, and other left Independents will launch Affordable Ireland.

5,000 children spent Christmas in emergency accommodation

Richard Boyd Barrett: it’s Government’s ‘eternal shame’ that more than 5,000 children were in emergency accommodation. Warns Residential Tenancies Bill will ‘turbo charge’ rent increases. Calls for meaningful rent controls and ‘transformational’ state construction company to end housing crisis.