{"id":603796,"date":"2026-08-25T04:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603796\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T04:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:28:14","slug":"donegal-rents-doubled-since-2020-latest-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603796\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal rents DOUBLED since 2020, latest figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donegal rents have doubled since 2020, the latest figures from housing website daft.ie have shown.<\/p>\n

The average cost of renting a home in Donegal is \u20ac8,000 per year more compared to just six years ago.<\/p>\n

Deputy Pearse Doherty has said the latest Daft.ie figures show the scale of the rental crisis facing people in Donegal, with the cost of renting having doubled since 2020.<\/p>\n

The Donegal TD said the increase means renters are now facing an additional cost of approximately \u20ac7,800 a year compared with 2020, placing further pressure on families and workers struggling with the cost of living.<\/p>\n

He said \u201cToday\u2019s Daft.ie figures show that government need to urgently reduce rents and ban rent increases. If government had listened to Sinn F\u00e9in, then renters in Donegal would be paying half what they are paying today.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the figures, the cost of renting in Donegal has doubled since 2020. The average amount now paid to rent a home is \u20ac1,300.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shows just how badly renters in Donegal have been let down by successive governments<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means families are now facing an additional cost of around \u20ac7,800 every single year compared with six years ago.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat is \u20ac650 extra every month that families and workers are having to find simply to keep a roof over their heads.”<\/p>\n

He added that for a family already struggling with the cost of groceries, energy, childcare, transport and other household bills, this is an enormous amount of money.<\/p>\n

He added \u201cWages in Donegal have not doubled since 2020. Social welfare payments have not doubled. Household incomes have not doubled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the consequence of a chronic failure to deliver enough affordable and social homes\u00a0alongside a mismanaged defective concrete block crisis\u00a0and a refusal to introduce a ban on rent increases.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should not need two good incomes to have a roof over your head in this state, but these figures suggest that is exactly what is required.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese figures are another stark warning to the Government that the housing crisis is getting worse, not better.<\/p>\n

\u201cRenters in Donegal cannot afford another year of inaction. Sinn F\u00e9in will continue to stand-up for renters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal rents have doubled since 2020, the latest figures from housing website daft.ie have shown. The average cost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-603796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}