In 2018, the Enhanced Long Term Social Housing Leasing Scheme was introduced in order to allow local authorities target newly built, or yet to be built, houses and apartments that could provide social housing through long term leasing at a reasonable scale.
The Enhanced Leasing Scheme is one option available to supplement delivery under the local authority leasing programme.
The Table below details the delivery under Enhanced Leasing in 2021, broken down by local authority.
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Local Authority
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Dwellings Delivered
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DLR
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81
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Dublin City
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23
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Kildare
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61
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Louth
|
14
|
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Total
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179
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Under the Housing for All plan, long term leasing, which includes Enhanced Leasing, will be ended by 2025. Housing for All long term leasing targets have been assigned to 13 Local Authorities to deliver 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing from 2022 to 2025, tapering down from 1,300 units in 2022 to 200 units in 2025.
Enhanced Leasing is funded under the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP), which funds the ongoing current costs of homes delivered by local authorities through the various leasing programmes, as well as homes secured by Approved Housing Bodies through build and acquisition. The overall budget for the programme in 2022 is €344.65m. The proportion of the 2021 SHCEP budget spent on Enhanced Leasing was €3.65m. This spend figure is based on local authority claims for operational agreements recorded on my Department's SHCEP financial management system and may not directly relate to units delivered, due to the time lag in the submission of claims to my Department in respect of new claims after delivery.
