Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the Respond social housing development in Balgriffin, Dublin 13 yesterday; New Build activity in the second quarter of 2020
This afternoon
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien has published the Q2 2020 Social Housing Construction Status Report, outlining the delivery of social housing across the country.
It states that, at the end of the second quarter of 2020, fewer than a thousand homes were delivered under ‘New Build activity’.
Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson and Dublin Bay North TD, Cian O’Callaghan, said:
“The Government set a target to build 7,736 social homes in 2020. In the first half of the year, they reached less than 10% of that target, building just 725.
“This is a shocking level of under-delivery. Needless to say, Covid-19 has had a significant impact, but this is the third year in a row that the Government has missed its own target for building new social homes.
“We cannot allow this to continue. Thousands of people in this State are homeless. This housing crisis will only end if the Government builds new homes.”
If it was Yoghan announcing it, the number would be 5000+.
Why do people get subsidised homes when others have to work for them? Baffling…
Because “market forces” have ensured that house prices are far and above the remit of people who “work for them”..
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/dublin-house-prices-more-than-nine-times-the-average-salary-1.3858878
Why do people get subsadised homes when others have to work for them? Baffling…
how many foreign nationals are on the housing list I wonder?
Shur’ who cares
The Housing Regulations decide who qualifies to go into the list
Local Authorities vigilance on managing the list relevent to their own respective jurisdiction is watertight
Anyone not 100% qualified don’t even make it onto the list
I do. I don’t agree with housing half the planet.
Yeah. Only humans to which I share a geographical birth location with may be housed in my locale.
Racist much?
I didn’t realise the Local Authorities were being tasked with housing half the planet
How did I not know this
Tisn’t like I’m entirely ignorant of how social housing functions in this country
Bodger, I’m going to blame you and all that anti masker mask dodging you’re at these days
carrying on and turning my head
bold Bodger