The Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) budget funds the ongoing current costs of social homes delivered using a variety of different delivery streams. This includes properties built or acquired by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) using funding under the Capital Advance Leasing Facility (CALF) and the Housing Agency Acquisitions Fund (HAA), which are then made available under a Payment & Availability Agreement to local authorities. It also includes properties leased on a long term basis from private property owners by AHBs or local authorities; comprising properties secured through specific programs such as the Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS), the Long Term Leasing Scheme and the Mortgage to Rent Scheme. Dwellings made available under SHCEP are used to accommodate households from local authority waiting lists.
Under Housing for All, social housing targets have been set out to 2026, with Long Term Leasing expected to finish by year end 2025.
A breakdown of social housing delivery by scheme and by local authority location for Q1 and Q2 2022 combined can be found on my Department's website at the following link:
http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-affordble/overall-social-housing-provision
Delivery data for Q3 2022 is being collated at present and will be published as soon as that process is finalised.
The average annual cost associated with each leasing delivery stream is listed as of the end of Q2 2022 in table 1 below:
Table 1: Average Annual Cost by Delivery Stream :
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Delivery Stream
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Average Cost
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Long Term Leasing
|
€13,398
|
|
Short Term Leasing
|
€10,212
|
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Part V Leasing
|
€14,650
|
|
Mortgage to Rent
|
€11,324
|
|
Repair and Leasing
|
€6,345
|
Please note that the average costs set out in the table above are based on operational units per scheme as at the end of Q2 2022.
