Group honours housing projects

NEW social housing projects are setting a challenge for the private sector, it was claimed yesterday.

Fred Stephens, president of the Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH), said: “Those of us in the social housing sector could argue that a lot of new social housing is built to a higher standard than housing built in the private sector.”

He was speaking to mark the publication of an ICSH booklet that features some of the country’s best social housing projects.