Thomas Gould
Question:18. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the social housing target for Cork city was missed by almost 30% in 2023. [15678/24]
View answerThursday, 11 April 2024
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Cork City Council have exceeded their social housing target in all areas by 5% in 2023
The social housing targets for Cork City Council in 2023 were 538 for new build, 86 for leasing and an allocation of 80 units for second hand tenant in situ acquisitions.
In 2023, Cork City Council achieved its target, delivering 540 new build social housing units and 90 for leasing in addition to 109 acquisitions.
This included:
• 265 via local authority delivery through the Social Housing Investment Programme (SHIP)
• 37 delivered via local authority Part V
• 238 via Approved Housing Body (AHB) delivery including:
• 234 through the Capital Advance Leasing Facility, and;
• 4 through the Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) turnkey units.
Details of social housing delivery is published as part of the comprehensive programme level statistics published by my Department on a quarterly basis. This data is available for all local authorities to the end of Quarter 4 2023 and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website.
Question No. 19 answered with Question No. 10.