When a lead tenant in social housing passes away, the likelihood of other family members being evicted is dependent on whether they are judged to have met criteria to succeed the tenancy.
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Right-to-Evict Destroying Housing Stock – NIHE Analysis
If you are not among the few who can buy a social home, but you live in a social home, the Housing Executive (and Housing Associations) has a Right to Evict your family, after you pass away, curbed by only minimal conditions.
Liberty News: CATU wins improvements for Dublin City Council tenants
This article originally appeared in SIPTU’s Liberty newspaper in February 2024. Members of the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) have secured a series of improvements for tenants in Davitt House…
CATU Tallaght – Exchange Hall Evictions – Statement
The landlords in Exchange Hall, Tallaght have recently begun to issue eviction notices in a staggered manner to the tenants living there. Tenants include a wide variety of people from…
CATU Palestine solidarity action – occupation of AXA Headquarters, 14th Dec 2023
Today CATU members and Palestine solidarity organisations, including Dublin for Gaza and the IPSC have occupied AXA’s European HQ in Dublin in opposition to AXA’s profiting from Israeli occupation and…
CATU Are Hiring – Temp Leinster Organiser (Paternity Cover)
WHO ARE WE: CATU Ireland – The Community and Tenants Union of Ireland is a community based union of tenants, those in emergency & precarious living situations as well as…
CATU Are Hiring – Staff Coordinator
CATU Ireland – The Community and Tenants Union of Ireland is a community based union of tenants, those in emergency & precarious living situations and mortgage holders. We are a…
CATU Letter to Darragh O’Brien, Minister for Housing on the lifting of the eviction ban
March 31st, 2023 Darragh O’Brien, Minister for Housing We are the Community Action Tenants Union Ireland (CATU), a community and tenants union representing 2000 tenants and other working class people…
CATU stands in solidarity with migrants and racialised people
“It is not a housing crisis, it is an economic project to which we do not belong – we, the low-income workers, social welfare recipients, single people, single parents, the…
CATU STATEMENT ON THE REPUBLIC GOVERNMENT’S DECISION NOT TO EXTEND EVICTION BAN
On the 7th of March 2023, the 26 county government decided to lift the winter eviction ban heaping fear and insecurity on thousands of people. We, as a Community and…
What is wrong with putting your own people first in your own country?
It is a pretty reasonable statement to make in the context of a housingshortage, but we need to discuss what is wrong with it. I have been involved in tenant…
Belgian IPAs and Tenant Unions – CATU Report
‘Why does CATU not allow landlords to join? Isn’t it more difficult having that division and being separated, as opposed to working together?’ asked an attendee at a CATU presentation…
CATU News – Week 42
CATU News – Week 42 A spectre is haunting landlords: The spectre of organised communities! With that in mind, plans are afoot for a Halloween themed Week of Action on…
CATU News – Week 41
CATU News – Week 41, 2022 With spooky season well and truly underway, what could be spookier for those in power than confident, strongly organised communities?The National Campaigns group met…
Rent Tax Credit and Registering a Tenancy
Budget 2023 Announcement In Budget 2023, a new Rent Tax Credit was announced for people who pay for private rented accommodation. This tax credit will be €500 a year and…
CATU News – Week 40
We start this week with the exciting news that CATU are HIRING! On this occasion, we’re looking for a Regional Organiser for Ulster to build upon the excellent foundations laid by our…
CATU News – Week 39, 2022
We start this week in Belfast, where members are gearing up for this weekend’s Cost of Living protest, while also engaged in supporting a fellow member in taking on our old…
CATU News – Week 37, 2022
CATU News – Week 37, 2022. Firstly this week, a reminder of the two upcoming Cost of Living protests – in Dublin on September 24th and Belfast on October 1st.…
There were some Molotov cocktails thrown…
… not at anyone but just to make a visual impact”: A history of the Dún Laoghaire Housing Action Group, by Fiadh Tubridy and Gregor Kerr
It’s Time for Change! Why? And how do we get there?
Government housing policy is the cause of the housing crisis. Homelessness, waiting-lists andextortionate private rent levels are the symptoms of policy designed to benefit speculators,landlords, hedge funds: the business class.…
Introducing the CATU LGBTQ+ caucus
(An edited version of this article was previously published in GCN Magazine. You can find that version here). Gay or straight, all landlords should be abolished. Queer and trans people…
A landlord registry for tenants
We are all too familiar with landlords breaking the law and feeling powerless to protect ourselves. That’s why CATU exists in the first place – to put the power back…
CATU No Evictions Campaign Statement – Protest the McGrath Group on Dec 12th!
A coalition of Community Action Tenants Union branches in North Dublin City have launched the No Evictions campaign because we believe that every member of the community should be able to live peacefully…
‘Bolshevik tactics’: fighting for better housing in 1980s Dún Laoghaire
The below blog post was written by Fiadh Tubridy, a CATU member in Dun Laoghaire. Ireland has a long and proud tradition of struggle in relation to land and housing.…
Vultures Out of Coolock
This statement was written by CATU members in Coolock in reference to the recent rezoning and sell-on of the Chivers site in the area. You can read more about that…
CETA and Irish Housing – pt. 2
Our power to influence decisions on homes is under threat because of a dodgy trade deal: CETA Minister Darragh O’Brien’s (FF) long awaited Housing For All strategy promises affordability and…
CETA and Irish Housing
This blog post is written by the CATU Campaigns Group, which is campaigning against CETA – the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. The below lies out the case for…
Reflections on the Illegal St. Joseph’s Parade Eviction
In this post, members of CATU Mountjoy-Dorset Street reflect on an illegal eviction that was stopped on the 11th of April 2021, the day before the eviction ban lifted. On…
Phibsboro and Cabra Fight Co-Living
In this blog, union members report on how CATU Phibsboro-Glasnevin and CATU Cabra have been exploring novel forms of community organising during lockdown as part of a battle to stop…
AGM 2021 Schedule and Get out to Vote!
It’s a very exciting time to be a CATU member! In the last two weeks our local group’s AGM motions were sent out, debated via last week’s hustings and are…
CATU AGM 2021: Motions and Debates
Local elections have finished and there are a whole host of exciting motions and positions to be debated and voted on within your community and tenants’ union!There will be debates…
CATU AGM 2021: Building Community During and After the Pandemic
The first AGM of CATU Ireland where union national leadership, policies, campaigns, and more will be decided for the upcoming year. 2020 has been a year of massive upheaval in…
What is mutual aid?
In this article Edel answers the question: ‘what is mutual aid?’ She explains how people have worked together in many different contexts to meet needs in their communities both in…
Overcrowding and the Pandemic: Members’ Statement
A statement by members of Brazilian Left Front and CATU
I Like Public Housing and So Should You
This is the first in a new series of member-led writing for the CATU blog. In this one, our member Enda covers some of the history of public housing in…
Is there power in a union? Part 2
Housing, capitalism, and why it’s time to unionise by Aaron Downey (Training and Education Officer) Housing is a commodity under capitalism; the current economic system where most industry (and property)…
Is there power in a union? Part 1
The political background to housing and community action in Ireland by Aaron Downey (Training and Education Officer) This is adapted from a talk given as part of a series of…
October News Update
🏠 CATU has been busy, between building new committees, engaging in membership defense, and growing across the island of Ireland. ✊ Our membership is fast approaching the 600 members mark.…
Update – August 5th 2020
Despite the pandemic and the gloomy weather, this summer has turned out to be a busy one for CATU Ireland. Our four local committees/groups in Dublin: Mountjoy-Dorset, Phibsboro-Glasnevin, Crumlin-Drimnagh &…
Victory at Galloping Green Eviction Defence – UPDATE
UPDATE – Monday July 20, 2020 11amWe are pleased to say that the CATU members at Galloping Green have received notice that they can stay until July 31st as requested…
Progressives and Pandemics
If a week is a long time in politics, a month under lockdown is an eternity. It seems forever since Sinn Féin secured the largest share of first preference votes…
CATU Update -April 2020
CATU Ireland has been very busy since Covid-19 hit the Island despite all the disruption to our normal ways of organising.We have doubled our membership in the past 2 months!…
Statement: Keep our Communities Safe During Covid-19 Pandemic.
Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) was set up in October 2019 to empower us to fight for decent homes and a good quality of life for all in our communities.…
CATU is now open for All Island Membership.
Thank you to everyone who came to the Mountjoy and Dorset St, Community Action Tenants Union Launch on Saturday! 35 community/tenant members and people interested in the Union discussed the…
CATU Mountjoy & Dorset St Local Group Launch
We are very excited to be officially launching our first CATU local group in Mountjoy & Dorset St this coming Saturday (February 29th) in the Dublin Adult Learning Centre at…
Power in Numbers – Join the Union!
Great day on Tuesday February 18th, where 25 people stood together with our 4 members, tenants in Rutland Place North, who are being threatened with eviction by a Vulture fund.…
Stop the Vulture Eviction!
Stop the Vulture Eviction! When: Tuesday 18th of February, 12pm Where: Rutland Place North, Dublin 1CATU members, 4 tenants are facing eviction on Tuesday the 18th of February. We are…
Election Day on the doors
Election Day on the doors Great group on the doors around Rutland place, North Circular Road and Richmond in Dublin 1 on Election Day. We are building towards the launch…
Local Dorset St/Mountjoy planning meeting
Over 20 members came to our local Dorset St/Mountjoy planning meeting in A4 Sounds in Dublin. We couldn’t even fit everyone in the picture! We are launching the local group…