Government housing targets 'unrealistic', warns housing policy analyst

The virtual conference called Working to Eliminate Homelessness by 2030, hosted by the Simon Communities of Ireland as part of their Simon Week 2021, heard that in the four-and-a-half years up to 2020, a total of just 4,326 social homes were built. Photo: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

The ambition in the State’s new social housing plan of building 9,500 social housing units every year is “unrealistic”, according to a respected housing policy analyst.

Mel Reynolds, a top Dublin architect who routinely makes submissions to select Oireachtas committees on housing, said this is because of the failures of the last housing policy.