Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 28 September 2022
151. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable purchase and cost-rental housing units that will be delivered in 2022; the individual project targets for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47419/22]
View answerUnder Housing for All, the Government will deliver 54,000 affordable homes between now and 2030, to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through the First Home Scheme. Under Housing for All, targeted affordable delivery for 2022 is 4,100 and for 2023 is 5,500. Government has signalled that homes will be provided broadly on a 2:1 affordable purchase to cost rental basis over the course of the plan.
2022 represents the first year of this very ambitious programme. Significant funding has been secured and is being made available to support delivery of affordable housing. Based on a Housing Need and Demand Assessment each City and County Council has developed a Housing Delivery Action Plan to underpin its delivery of social, affordable purchase and cost rental housing in the period to 2026. These plans have been made available on Council websites.
I have provided a range of funding schemes and programmes to help achieve delivery targets. This includes the Affordable Housing Fund for local authorities, the Cost Rental Equity Loan for Approved Housing Bodies, LDA capital funding and the First Home Scheme. Taken together, these interventions are intended to actively encourage affordable housing delivery across all public and private providers.
Local authorities have been asked to begin collating information on delivery of affordable homes in their area in the same manner as is currently undertaken for social housing. It is intended that information on delivery across all delivery streams will be gathered by my Department and I expect that my Department will be in a position to begin reporting on affordable delivery in national quarterly delivery statistics later this year.
