Lack of activity in Dublin social housing market ‘jaw-dropping’, says expert

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Only 200 homes added to social housing stock across four Dublin councils annually between 2017 and 2021

NOAC collates additions to social stock across the State’s 31 city and county councils with figures that include new builds, new and second-hand acquisitions, properties coming back into stock and Part V units acquired from developers and allows for stock leaving the system as a result of the sale of units to tenants and demolitions.

Dublin City Council saw a net loss of 268 homes in five years, falling from 24,990 in 2017 to 24,772 in 2021.Fingal County Council saw a net increase of 780 in five years, South Dublin County Council climbed by 452, while in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown, there was a net increase of just 35. He noted that the least amount of activity has been happening in Dublin, “the area with the most expensive rents, longest waiting lists and the least affordable home. The only way you will get a house is if a tenant dies”.

He said that when it comes to the numbers, the information that is being put into the public domain from certain sources can be quite selective and do not tell the full story.

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There should me mass sacking of senior civil servants responsible .

Need high density, high rise mixed use social and affordable housing. Not free housing for scumbags, but for hard working people who want to pay but can’t afford current private rates

This is criminal. No other word for it.

Surely they need to hold more for refugees at least?

If government solved the housing problem what would they have to dangle in front of the sleeping mases? Oh yeah I forgot, they still have the other problems they promised to fix decades ago.

Beyond pathetic

It’s by design. Not accident. When your political class are composed largely of rent seekers and users. Thing will always magically unfold in favour of their portfolios.

Well if an 'Expert' says it, I automatically think it's wrong nowadays.

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