How the plan is executed is critical - Rebuilding Ireland

AMBITIOUS, costly, far reaching, and career-making are adjectives that come to mind on seeing in its entirety the Government’s action plan for tackling Ireland’s housing crisis. 

The product of an unprecedented minority administration which is reliant on implementing a new brand of politics, it far surpasses in both vision and scope any previous attempt at drawing up such a plan.

Reflecting the long hours of work put into this project by Housing Minister Simon Coveney, it is based on a complex approach to resolving the crisis through a mix of different ways to provide people in need of housing with 25,000 new homes each year up to 2021. Reflecting the sheer scale of the current problem, a staggering sum of €5.35 billion will be injected into building social housing over the next six years, representing an extra €2.2bn on previous estimates of what was needed to address the plight of homeless people.