Social housing stock rises by less than 10,000 in four years

Mr Reynolds said the commission’s data were an “absolute measure of social housing stock”.The most eye-catching numbers related to the four local Dublin authorities, he said, “where we’ve seen very little addition to the permanent stock of local authority homes”.

“Given the demand on combined social housing lists is over 40,000, to add an average of 659 homes a year goes some way to explaining the demand pressure we’re seeing in the capital,” he said. The shift from directly building social homes to providing rent subsidies – the so-called bricks to benefits switch – has been one of the most significant trends in housing policy here over the past four decades.

Separate data last week showed the Government spent close to €900 million on rent subsidies in the private sector last year, including €542 million on the Government’s main rent subsidy scheme, the HAP. Some 100,000 households, a third of the rented sector, are now reliant on some sort of State subsidy.

10,000 social housing units in 3 years! Meanwhile it's a free for all for ineligible migrants which attracts more illegal immigration. Government need to start focusing on the housing problem in the country before making sweeping decisions to exacerbate it

O Brien is a chancer reeling off excuse after excuse as to why houses are not being built. Sack him,he is out of his league in housing and is drowning in his ignorance of the process involved including connecting new houses to waste water plants

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