Local authorities failing to meet social housing targets as worst offenders named amid Cabinet meeting over homes crisis
Our city and county councils are relying significantly on Approved Housing Bodies to carry out the bulk of their building instead of building social homes directly themselves.
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Housing Minister James Browne will brief Ministers on a league table-style document
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For example,
Instead, the City Council relied on approved housing bodies and other methods to obtain 937 social homes last year.
Despite this,
Housing Minister James Browne will today brief Ministers on a new league table-style document analysing each local authority's output when it comes to building homes for social housing.
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The table, seen by the Irish Sun, shows that almost half of local authorities failed to hit their social housing targets over the past three years.
When 2022, 2023 and 2024 are taken together –
Dublin City Council is the second worst performer on social housing with 2,344 social homes provided over the last three years – just 49 per cent of their target of 4,800.
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In total, local authorities had a target to build 27,400 social homes over the past three years but only 5,065 were directly built by local authorities.
WORST PERFORMERS
Instead, 18,320 homes were built through approved housing bodies and other methods.
When it comes to council's directly building their own social housing, Dublin City Council was the worst performer last year followed by
Minister Browne will publish this league table data today as he aims to ensure transparency and accountability across all levels on housing.
This social housing data is part of a series of housing memos that the Minister will bring to Cabinet today.
The Minister will bring forward a plan to create standardised social housing with the same plans being used in different developments across the country to speed up the process.
Ministers will also be told about plans to bring a Planning and Development Bill to try to unlock developments that have been held up in the planning system and risk running out of date.
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Local authorities are failing to meet their social housing targets
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