There are currently 450 organisations listed on my Department's Register of Housing Bodies with Approved Status. Further information is available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/1172c-register-of-housing-bodies-with-approved-status-under-section-6-of-the-housing-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1992/
The table below provides information on of the number of Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) signed up to the Voluntary Regulatory Code, which are active in each local authority, along with the number of units either owned, managed or leased. This information is sourced from the most recent Sectoral Analysis Report produced by the Housing Agency's Regulation Office www.housingagency.ie/sites/default/files/2021-07/Regulation%20Annual%20Report%202020%20FINAL.pdf which provides a comprehensive overview of the AHB sector.
Local Authority
|
No. of AHBs operating in Local Authority*
|
No. of Units**
|
Dublin City
|
48
|
8756
|
Limerick City & County
|
46
|
1787
|
Cork County
|
40
|
2414
|
Dun Laoghaire – Rathdown
|
32
|
1767
|
Kilkenny
|
31
|
1044
|
Cork City
|
30
|
1874
|
Kildare
|
30
|
2021
|
Fingal
|
30
|
2372
|
Tipperary
|
29
|
1227
|
Meath
|
27
|
1177
|
South Dublin
|
26
|
2834
|
Mayo
|
24
|
792
|
Wicklow
|
24
|
746
|
Clare
|
22
|
655
|
Donegal
|
19
|
1084
|
Waterford City & County
|
19
|
1301
|
Wexford
|
19
|
954
|
Kerry
|
18
|
921
|
Galway City
|
17
|
865
|
Galway County
|
17
|
675
|
Offaly
|
17
|
557
|
Louth
|
17
|
1680
|
Laois
|
17
|
890
|
Westmeath
|
16
|
261
|
Sligo
|
14
|
474
|
Monaghan
|
12
|
366
|
Carlow
|
12
|
822
|
Cavan
|
11
|
264
|
Longford
|
10
|
370
|
Roscommon
|
8
|
207
|
Leitrim
|
7
|
72
|
Total
|
|
41229
|
* Based on AHBs signed up to the Voluntary Code
** Based on December 2019 data
My Department also publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on social housing delivery for each local authority on a quarterly basis. These statistics, which include programmes supported by AHB delivery, are available to the end of Quarter 3 and are published on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/
In addition to the statistical overview of activity in each local authority, a detailed Social Housing Construction Status Report is published each quarter which provides scheme level detail on new build activity, including those delivered by AHBs. The most recent publication covers the period up to the end of Quarter 3 2021 and is available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/feea9-social-housing-construction-projects-status-report-q3-2021/.
Following on from the introduction of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019, the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority (AHBRA) was formally established on 1 February 2021. The Regulator will have responsibility for, inter alia, establishing and maintaining a register of AHBs; preparing standards by which AHBs will be monitored and assessed; encouraging and facilitating the better governance, administration and management, including corporate governance and financial management, of AHBs. The Regulator will have powers to carry out investigations and cancel the registration of AHBs.
The functions of the Regulator will also include collecting such information concerning AHBs as the Regulator considers necessary and appropriate for the purposes of the performance of the Regulator’s functions, and publishing such information (including statistical information) concerning AHBs as the Regulator considers appropriate.