Getting a handle on vacant homes
Getting vacant homes back into circulation is a key plank in tackling the housing crisis
The Central Statistics Office is going to use new technology to count vacant homes after its figures were called into question.
Official inquiries have found that only a fraction of the 180,000 "vacant homes" identified by the Central Statistics Office (CSO)'s enumerators in the 2016 Census may still be empty now. This is because they have since been sold, rented out or taken over by family members after the death of a ...
