Louth County Council are moving away from long term leases, due to the extensive work needed once houses are handed back.
Dundalk councillors heard at their December meeting of a change in approach by the council’s housing section to long term leasing.
Cllr. Marianne Butler asked how many houses the council will be retrofitting under the EERP, the energy efficiency retrofit programme, and if there was a location for these houses.
She welcomed a property in Dundalk having been repaired and allocated under the Repair and Lease Scheme, but asked if a tenant going into a property under this initiative would expect to be given a thirty year lease.
Councillor Butler joined us on The Agenda this morning to talk to us some more about this.