Housing for All provides a new housing plan for Ireland to 2030 with the overall objective that every citizen in the State should have access to good quality homes through a steady supply of housing in the right locations, with economic, social and environmental sustainability built into the system. The strategy sets out, over four pathways, a broad suite of measures to achieve its policy objectives together with a financial commitment of in excess of €4 billion per annum.
The Land Development Agency (LDA) has an immediate focus on managing the State’s own lands to develop new homes, and regenerate under-utilised sites. In the longer-term, it will assemble strategic land-banks from a mix of public and private lands making these available for housing in a controlled manner, which is expected to bring essential more long-term stability to the Irish housing market. It is also tasked with unlocking stalled private, planning-consented developments in the shorter-term through its market engagement initiative - Project Tosaigh.
The target under Project Tosaigh is the delivery of 5,000 new homes by 2026 for affordable cost rental or sale to eligible households under affordable purchase arrangements. This is in addition to the 2,800 affordable and social homes to be delivered from the initial state lands that the LDA are currently working on.
Housing for All identified a further 20 sites for transfer to the LDA with the potential to deliver up to 15,000 homes and in many cases form part of a major revitalisation of urban centres, with benefits to the wider community from the scale of associated social and community infrastructure which will be planned and delivered in tandem with the residential units. Government departments will work closely together to identify further appropriate lands that could be developed for housing.
The LDA is also working in partnership with local authorities to support housing delivery on key strategic local authority sites. A good example of this is the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council scheme at Shanganagh, Shankill which received planning permission from An Bord Pleanála in July 2020 and is projected to deliver 597 new homes: 306 Cost Rental, 200 social housing and 91 to be sold under the affordable purchase scheme.
The Q1 2022 Housing for All progress report detailing proposals and progress on the LDA's active sites over both the short and long term can be accessed on the following link:
www.gov.ie/en/publication/9f667-housing-for-all-q1-2022-progress-report/
