{"id":1813,"date":"2022-04-27T10:06:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T09:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/annual-rents-in-dublin-now-exceed-annual-income-for-minimum-wage-workers\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T09:06:22","slug":"annual-rents-in-dublin-now-exceed-annual-income-for-minimum-wage-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/annual-rents-in-dublin-now-exceed-annual-income-for-minimum-wage-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Rents In Dublin Now Exceed Annual Income for Minimum Wage Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Renters in Dublin today will pay \u20ac12,000 more in rent per annum than they did in 2011<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Average rental costs for new tenancies in Dublin are now more than the annual income of those on the minimum wage, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the latest report from the Residential Tenancies Board, the cost of new tenancies increased by 9% nationally in the final quarter of 2021. The average cost of new tenancies in Dublin is now nearly \u20ac2,000 per month \u2013 an increase of 100pc since 2011, when average rents were \u20ac985.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on these figures, renters in Dublin today will pay \u20ac12,000 more in rent per annum than they did in 2011 \u2013 and that\u2019s just the annual increase. The average annual amount they will spend on rent in Dublin is nearly \u20ac24,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor context, workers on the minimum wage \u2013 a paltry \u20ac10.50 per hour \u2013 earn just \u20ac21,840 in a year. How are workers on the minimum wage \u2013 and there are plenty of them \u2013 supposed to survive when average rental costs now exceed their annual gross pay?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRents are now unsustainable, not just in Dublin, but all over the country. According to the RTB, rents in Roscommon increased by a whopping 25% in the fourth quarter of last year and rents in Waterford were up 24%. I could go on. There were double digit rental increases in 14 counties in the final quarter of last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother alarming figure from the RTB report is that the number of new tenancies, at the end of last year, had dropped by nearly 50pc. This indicates that renters are staying longer in their tenancies, given the volatility of the market, and that there has been an exodus of landlords from the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has conceded that there is a crisis in the rental market. But where is the evidence it is dealing with it? The record of this government is clear \u2013 the crisis is getting worse. Unless it radically revises its housing plans, this deterioration will continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>27 April, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renters in Dublin today will pay \u20ac12,000 more in rent per annum than they did in 2011 Average rental costs for new tenancies in Dublin are now more than the annual income of those on the minimum wage, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan. \u201cAccording to the latest report from the Residential Tenancies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cian-ocallaghan","category-housing-crisis","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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