State allocates €251m to social housing

The Government has allocated €251 million in housing capital allocations to develop new social housing and improve existing properties.

Jan O’Sullivan, minister for housing and planning, said the money being provided to city and county councils was coming from the total funding pool of €691m available to her department at a time when the social housing capital budget had been depleted by cutbacks in recent years.

The largest single allocation is to Dublin City Council, which will receive €12m for new housing supply and €50m to improve housing stock, including regeneration projects.