Social housing policy a failure, says Sr Stan

THE Government’s failure to make developers deliver on affordable housing will lead to massive social problems, an influential charity warned yesterday.

Long-time housing campaigner Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, launching a hard-hitting attack on the Government's policies on housing and homeless, described the social housing provision as a good idea but a failure, so far, in practice.

There has been a total lack of movement on the building of social and affordable housing outlined in a 2000 planning act, according to Focus Ireland.