Housing
Government housing body has not built one house on state lands
All 270 homes delivered by the Land Development Agency to date have been bought from private developers. Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin claims the agency is competing with first-time buyers and approved housing bodies for limited number of new builds
The Land Development Agency (LDA), which was set up by the government four years ago to accelerate the construction of housing, has built no homes on state lands, new figures show.
Previously unreleased details of the state agency’s activity under Project Tosaigh, its flagship programme, show that it has delivered just 270 homes, all of which were acquired from some of the biggest developers in the country rather than built by the agency itself.
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