Call for Credit Unions service to incorporate mortgages and Council loans
A Sligo-based board member of the Irish League of Credit Unions says credit unions should be allowed get into the mortgage market, including giving loans to local authorities to provide housing. Seamus Kilgannon, who’s also a county councillor, was reacting to reports today that some credit unions are turning away…
Meeting social housing needs ‘a challenge’ facing all Councils this year
Building more social housing units is a challenge that all Local Authorities in the north west are facing in the coming year. It comes as a more subtle homelessness crisis is emerging in counties like Sligo. While people may not be obviously living homeless on the streets of the north…
€12 million in housing & roads funding for Sligo county council
Sligo County Council have received over 12 million euro in funding for housing and transport works to be started in 2017. The department of the environment have allocated just under 3 million euro for the building of 22 social houses at Fr. O’Flanagan terrace. The first housing contract in seven…
Housing minister doesn’t want ‘to make a fool of people’ who paid water charges
The Minister for Housing says he wants to build communities as opposed to just housing estates. He has also says he in no way wants ‘to make a fool of people’ who have paid their water charges but instead find a workable solution by assessing the details of a new…
Concerns over privacy at council housing office
A change in the location of Sligo’s local authorities’ housing offices has resulted in a lack of privacy for people to discuss their business, it’s been claimed. There had been two housing offices, one in City Hall and the other in County Hall at Riverside. However, Independent Councillor Declan Bree…