Taoiseach: Up to 30,000 affordable homes could be delivered this year

Taoiseach Micheál Martin with resident Mrs Cooke at the official opening of the 86-home development at Bishop’s Avenue,  Farranferris, Cork. Picture: Alison Miles / OSM Photo

The State may be on course to deliver more than its target of 25,000 social and affordable homes this year, the Taoiseach said on Friday, as official monthly homeless figures recorded a slight drop for December – the first decrease in six months.

Focus Ireland welcomed the drop but warned that 700 more people were homeless last month than in December 2020.