Council seeks release of houses in unfinished estates

People on the housing waiting list in County Cork may get a boost if the local authority is successful with its plea to the National Housing Agency (NHA) to instruct Nama to allocate vacant homes.

Members of the council’s Northern Division are writing to the NHA asking it to release houses, in unfinished estates, to the local authority so it can utilise them for families in dire need of proper accommodation.

Council officials have been in preliminary discussions with Nama and although they identified needs in certain areas they haven’t been officially offered any properties because such a hand-over has to be sanctioned by the NHA.