Up to €40k on offer for upgrade of homes for social housing

Cork County Council is appealing to people with vacant properties to help them ease the housing crisis — and there’s a ‘carrot’ of up to €40,000 on offer.

It has launched a Repair and Lease Scheme (RLS) which it also hopes will improve dereliction in many towns and villages.

Seamus De Faoite, a senior executive county council officer who has been put in charge of the scheme, said its aim is to acquire more than 200 such properties over the next five years in the county via the RLS.