People Before Profit city councillor, Joan Collins has put down a motion to tonight’s City Council meeting urging rejection of the government’s plan that councils should lease vacant NAMA properties.
The motion reads ‘Dublin City Council rejects the Government proposal that local authorities lease properties that have been taken over by NAMA for the purpose of social housing. Instead Dublin City Council calls on the Government to transfer empty houses and apartments that are taken over by NAMA to the Council to be used as rental properties for Council tenants. This would have the effect of taking pressure off the housing list and securing rents and income for the Council.’