Funding delays will lower number of houses built next year, says housing analyst

The programme for government promised accelerated home building to achieve 300,000 completions by 2030 or an average of 60,000 per annum.

The pausing and slowdown in house building due to funding delays will result in even less completions in 2025 than the 30,300 recorded last year, according to industry sources. 

The delays in approving funding for social and cost-rental homes, first reported in the Irish Examiner last month, have seen housing and apartment schemes stopped mid-construction.