Social Justice Ireland: Government must circumvent EU and build

The Government must find ways around European rules so it can fund the building of 90,000 social housing units and clear waiting lists, Social Justice Ireland claims.

The independent think-tank says that the number of homes needed to tackle waiting lists will never be built by the private sector.

The Government’s Rebuilding Ireland programme, launched in July, 2016, proposes that 47,000 social-housing units be delivered by 2021. While 26,000 units are to be built exclusively as social housing, the remainder are to be acquired or bought by local authorities and housing associations from the private sector and from other sources.