Councillor Louise Dunne proposed keeping the land in public ownership, but was defeated

A landmark €51 million investment package aims to provide 250 new social homes across the country in the next 12 months.

Only 35% of the state's targeted number of new social housing units for 2019 were built in the first nine months of this year.

The Fianna Fáil leader has accused Fine Gael of “looking down their noses” at social housing projects.

A developer has offered to lease close to 500 apartments in Coolock in Dublin to the State for social homes.

The housing charity Tuath is set to acquire the development, which Conor McGregor has invested in.

The number of children accessing homeless services has fallen for a third month in a row to 3,675.

Dublin City Council is moving to evict up to 50 social housing tenants who have failed to pay rent.

A review by the Department of Finance has found that NAMA has made "exceptional progress" towards achieving its overall objectives.

Nearly 2,600 people have been on Dublin City Council's social-housing waiting-list for at least 10 years.

Social-housing delivery last year was one of the highest on record, according to the Irish Council for Social Housing.

The ICSH has called for the immediate publication of the bill to establish the Land Development Agency launched by the Government last September to develop state lands for housing development and regeneration.

The country's leading housing organisations have launched a new campaign for more social and affordable housing.

In the last few days, more than 60 representatives from various voluntary and civic organisations met at Cork City Hall to discuss how the revolutionary period in Cork city and county might be marked over the coming years.

Social housing applicants who succeeded in securing homes later turned down Cork County Council offers on a number of grounds, including not being close to schools, public transport, and other amenities.

Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has come under attack for radical proposals to “punish” families on housing lists, who refuse offers, by putting back their potential waiting time by five years.

Groups representing the homeless are accusing the Government of victim blaming following proposals to penalise families who turn down social housing.

Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy has defended the Government’s housing policy saying that housing stock has increased drastically with eight times the number of new builds being completed in recent years.

The Government has announced that more than 8,400 social housing units were built, repaired or made available last year. The figure met just over half of new demands on council housing lists, however.

Families who turn down two offers of social housing will not get another one for five years under stricter government plans.

Kerry County Council has confirmed that one-fifth of the applicants have turned down offers for state of the art houses in a social housing development in Kenmare.

Construction workers at St Cuthbert's Park near Clondalkin said they were fed up with ongoing threats and intimidation.

The first of the Government's promised 150,000 new houses will be built by 2020.

Trade union Unite has called on the government to prioritise and make public housing a centrepiece of next week's Budget 2019.

Applicants for social housing in Cork county are being discriminated against compared to home-seekers in Cork City, due to different income caps applied by central Government.

The head of Knocklyon United says the Dublin club could fold if plans for 42 social housing homes go ahead.

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A report on homelessness has suggested that one in five offers of social housing was rejected last year.

Questions have been raised as to whether any homes have been built from €400m in proceeds from the sale of Bord Gais Energy that were originally set aside for investment in social housing.

Politicians on both sides of the row over whether most social housing is being built by local authorities or private builders are missing the point.

Two new projects will form the blueprint for future council houses in Co Cork, as they are designed to be easily adapted for people who become disabled or for couples who require additional space as the size of their family increases.

Housing associations provided one-third of the total amount of long-term social housing last year, amid calls for more government help in providing increased housing in future.

Concerns have been raised over the use of a site in Goatstown for social housing and Traveller accommodation.

New council houses built in Cork will be designed to be disability-friendly, or easily adaptable should somebody become infirm or suffer a life-changing accident.

The Government has the capacity to build 50,000 social houses in the next two years but this would not be the solution to the homeless crisis, the housing minister claims.

It’s 25 years since the National Children’s Hospital was first proposed but it has not been delivered. Despite millions being spent not one child has been treated in it and it would take a very brave person to predict when one might be.

Housing charities say the pace of social housing construction needs to increase.

Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has given each of the 31 local authorities exact targets on the number of social houses they are expected to provide this year.

The Government is determined to fast-track the delivery of more social housing projects, Junior Housing Minister Damien English has insisted.

Just over 65% of people on the housing list in Cork have engaged with an online system to allocate social housing.

The Deputy Chief Executive of Dublin City Council has admitted low-income families are being pitted against each for social housing