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Review the structure of housing in Northern Ireland. It is very complicated.

Submitted on Thursday 16th September 2021

Rejected on Wednesday 12th April 2023

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Review the structure of housing in Northern Ireland. It is very complicated.

Petition Details

It is very difficult to navigate the housing sector in Northern Ireland, particularly to housing associations. Some of them consider that they are not public bodies, but they are, as determined in the case of

Additional Information

To simplify the system and not have multiple agencies doing basically the same thing, but actually doing nothing. NIHE should not put potential tenants on a common waiting list if the housing association has had any case against it in the court, especially if they have lost. Housing Rights should be just that "rights" and not expect people to disclose their income and expenditure before any assistance can be given. Just two examples.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Decisions about housing in Northern Ireland are a matter for the Northern Ireland Executive and Northern Ireland Assembly, not the UK Government or Parliament.

If you want to raise this issue you could contact your MLA, or raise it with the Northern Ireland Executive.

You can find contact details for your MLAs here: http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/your-mlas/

You can find contact details for the departments of the Northern Ireland Executive here: www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/government-departments-in-northern-ireland

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