Housing Assistance Payment (HAP)

If you are homeless* and registered with one of the Dublin Local Authorities, you can apply to the homeless section of your local authority to access Housing Assistance Payment (HAP).

Dublin City Council
Telephone 01 2226953
or 01 2226804 or 01 2226846

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
Telephone 01 2054700

Fingal County Council
Telephone 01 8905090

South Dublin County Council
Telephone 01 4149364

HAP is a social housing support that allows you to work and or attend training and education. You pay rent to the local authority that is affordable and based on your income. The local authority pays your landlord the market rent.

Below is a list of the rent limits for household types across the Dublin Region:

Housing Assistance Payment HAP (pdf 554.17 KB)

Homeless Assessment

October 2017 Download pdf

The HAP office will work for you to:

Fast track your application to ensure that the new tenancy starts as soon as possible
Arrange to pay the deposit for a property on your behalf to the landlord/agent
Pay one month’s rent in advance on your behalf to the landlord/agent
Arrange to pay the monthly rent in advance to your landlord/agent each month
Arrange for a support service called Support to Live Independently (SLI) to visit you in the first weeks/months of your tenancy to make sure everything is going smoothly
If you have a key worker, your key worker can discuss your housing needs with the Dublin Place Finder team for consideration when properties become available.

How does becoming a HAP tenant affect your application for social housing in Dublin?

When you become a HAP tenant you are in receipt of social housing support and are no longer homeless. You remain eligible to apply for other social housing options. Your time to date on any of Dublin’s social housing waiting list is not lost. It continues to build and your application is registered on the social housing transfer waiting list of your local authority. This does not affect your right to recieve offers of social housing as they come up in your area of choice.