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Is childcare the biggest cost for NI families, after housing?

1 September 2022

Childcare isn’t relevant to every home – but, for such households, this claim is backed by evidence. Annual surveys show that for over half of

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Is Belfast the most lucrative city in the UK for students’ landlords?

27 July 2022

MLA Gerry Carroll made this claim based on a story in the Belfast Telegraph That story was based on a report from insurance firm CIA

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Are 95% or 98% of all households in the Holylands area of Belfast HMOs?

9 October 2020

This claim is inaccurate. FactCheckNI has estimated that 45% of properties in the Holylands are licensed as HMOs, and Belfast City Council report a figure

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Do over 95% of south Belfast residents own their own home?

5 December 2019

This claim is inaccurate. The 2011 Census shows that the Belfast South constituency recorded 56.1% of homes being owned outright or owned with a mortgage

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Are half of the people in Fermanagh and Omagh living in poverty?

12 February 2019

This claim is inaccurate. 25.1% of people in Fermanagh and Omagh lived in relative and/or absolute poverty, from 2012-15. The claim was corrected by the

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Homes paying bedroom tax increased fivefold?

17 December 2018

The 140 households whose top-up payments ceased in the past year is four times more than the 35 households in the previous year. Also, we