Broad welcome from support groups for Government's plan to solve housing

Housing support groups have broadly welcomed the Government’s housing plan, which has pledged to ramp up social housing supply, incentivise developers, and ease rental pressures.

Housing Minister Simon Coveney pledged to phase out the use of hotels for the homeless, to end the practice of council estates, and to facilitate the building of 25,000 units annually by 2019.

However, housing groups also warned that the actual delivery of the plan, which has headline targets, was crucial, indifferent of which party stays in power.