Inaction on tenant-in-situ funding 'puts families at risk of homelessness' 

Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin said extending the tenant-in-situ scheme this year is an 'urgent matter' given the housing crisis. Picture: iStock

Sales of homes to tenants are in limbo because the new Government has yet to make a decision about continuing a scheme designed to protect them — even as delays mean landlords are pulling out of it, putting families at risk of homelessness.

Correspondence from Department of Housing officials shows local authorities are unable to buy properties being put up for sale by landlords as funding for the tenant-in-situ scheme has not yet been agreed for this year.