Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 4 July 2023
374. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of affordable housing developments currently in the planning process or under construction, broken down by local authority, funding stream, and stage in the planning/construction process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32662/23]
View answerThe planning status of affordable housing developments in each area is a matter for the local authority concerned.
Housing for All sets out the range of actions necessary to increase the supply of housing to the required 33,000 homes, on average, per year over the next decade. 54,000 affordable home interventions will be delivered between now and 2030 to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. of these 54,000 homes, 36,000 will be affordable purchase homes and 18,000 will be cost rental homes, to be delivered across the various delivery streams, including First Home.
2022 saw the first affordable housing delivery in a decade by local authorities and the first ever affordable housing delivery by the LDA. I anticipate that the momentum generated by this initial and welcome delivery will be ramped up over 2023 and 2024. A pipeline of housing delivery is now in place across our delivery partners and under ongoing development by local authorities, AHB's and the LDA.
At local level, each local authority has prepared and published a Housing Delivery Action Plan in respect of local authority supported or overseen delivery and foreseen output from other delivery streams. They set out projected delivery on an annual basis from 2022 to 2026. These plans were published on their respective websites in July 2022.
