Social housing target increased to 12,000 units per year as part of 'radical' new plan

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Housing minister James Browne and Evara CEO Michael Hynes at The Irons in Adamstown, Co Dublin earlier this year. The Government's new plan is expected to include a recommendation to accelerate the construction of new urban towns such as Adamstown. File picture: Colm Kerr 

The Government is targeting the delivery of 12,000 new social homes each year as part of its revised housing plan.

Ministers are expected to sign off on the plan today, Monday, at a meeting of the Cabinet committee on housing, before it is formally adopted by Cabinet on Wednesday.