Housing LDA to build 2,300 homes on north Dublin land in €44m deal with Nama If completed, it will be the biggest single state-led housing project in decades
Housing Respond signs up to deliver €2bn of affordable housingThe charity has signed heads of terms with developers to start construction on around 3,400 homes in the next year
Housing Hundreds of households saved from homelessness as result of local authority purchasesDarragh O’Brien said the acquisition of homes has been another ‘very important’ measure explored by the state since the lifting of the eviction ban in April
First cost rental homes in Limerick on the wayThe Land Development Agency has agreed a deal with Cairn Homes to buy 81 cost rental homes in the Mills, a new estate in Castletroy in Limerick city
Housing Cost rental housing a ‘huge assist’ to social integrationHousing Finance Agency chief says mixed tenure developments are ‘the way we should be living our life’
Housing Appeals against 850 homes on Oscar Traynor Road in Dublin are dismissedThe ruling by An Bord Pleanála has paved the way for construction to commence
Housing Minister for Housing unveils €750m cost rental scheme The project, which aims to deliver more than 4,000 houses in four years, could see builders earn up to €200,000 per unit built
Housing Rising interest rates give unexpected boost to social housing charities Tuath Housing says the hikes, along with inflation, have presented opportunities for the sector as private investors pull back from the market
Housing Social housing bodies register record year of delivery in 2022A new report from the Irish Council for Social Housing has shown that its members now control a combined 55,000 homes
Housing Councils sat on €151m affordable housing budget Almost 90 per cent of available funds for past two years have been left unspent, figures released by Sinn Féin show
State’s biggest landlord says it faces a ‘high risk’ from cost rental plansIres Reit has warned investors that the Affordable Housing Act could have negative impact on its revenues
New ‘lottery’ system to distribute cost-rental homes Darragh O’Brien, the Minister for Housing, has signed new regulations which require that an “independently-verifiable lottery” should be used to select households for new cost-rental homes when there is excess demand
Cost rental system could reduce rents by up to 60 per cent, report findsThe report, produced by a Brussels-based think tank for the Housing Agency, focused on cost rental case studies in three European countries
State’s first cost rental homes launched in north Co Dublin Two-bed homes in Balbriggan development will be €935 a month to rent in scheme where rents are set at a minimum of 25 per cent below open market rates
New cost-rental homes will leave tenants spending 40% of wages on rentThe homes in Dublin and Cork are being delivered by the Land Development Agency, but critics are describing them as unaffordable to most renters