Housing initiative: The electorate will be attentive to how Tánaiste Simon Harris and Taoiseach Micheál Martin tackle the rolling crisis. Photograph: Sam Boal/Collins
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It is finally here.
The Coalition’s long-promised new housing plan was unveiled on Thursday, and while Government politicians may hope it will be the key to solving the housing crisis, the Opposition is not surprisingly underwhelmed.
From delivering over 300,000 homes – including 72,000 social housing units – by the end of 2030 and already announced reforms to the rental sector to plans to regenerate derelict buildings to create 20,000 homes, there is much ambition (if no annual targets) in the 108-page Delivering Homes, Building Communities plan. Colm Keena has a Q&A on many of the main points here.
Meanwhile, our political correspondent, Ellen Coyne, has reported on how local authorities are being told to put long-term homeless families with children to the top of the queue for social housing, as part of a concerted Government effort to reduce the number of ch
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