Motion or amendment: Addressing Unaffordable Housing Costs - Amendment 3
Motion or amendment by Mr Gerry Carroll on .
- MLA
- Mr Gerry Carroll
- Party at the time
- People Before Profit Alliance
- Date
- 15 January 2026
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Addressing Unaffordable Housing Costs”
- Heading
- Addressing Unaffordable Housing Costs - Amendment 3
- Assembly identifier
- Document 466390
Read the official Assembly record Open Data source
Text
Addressing Unaffordable Housing Costs - Amendment 3
Leave out all after 'rent inflation;' and insert:
‘resolves that no MLA who has registered an interest as a private residential landlord should be permitted to vote on Assembly matters related to the private rented sector, or form part of the Committee for Communities; and calls on the Minister for Communities to bring forward legislation to introduce robust rent controls, including a freeze and gradual reduction of private rents, alongside a moratorium on the House Sales Scheme to stabilise rents and improve housing affordability.’
91 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not flagged”.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.06 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
- Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.95).
- No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
- The overall probability was at or below the not-flagging threshold.
This is an AI-generated assessment of the text, made against published criteria. It is not a finding of fact about the MLA or their intentions. The Assembly record itself is the fact.
Jev’s structured answers
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.05 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.05 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.01 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.05 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.05 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.95 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.06 | At or below not-flagging threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 1.00 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.00 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.97 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.02 |
| Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues | 0.01 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.00 |
| Parades, bonfires and commemorations | 0.00 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 09:18 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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