Minister for Housing James Browne at the launch of the new plan on housing and homelessness. Photograph: Sam Boal/Collins
The Government’s latest plan to fix the housing crisis, published on Thursday, is largely a review and repetition of an earlier plan in 2021, Housing for All.
This is according to Michelle Norris, director of the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin and a member of the Housing Commission.
“It contains little that is new,” she says.
But this may not be a bad thing.
“I think the pace and scale of constant changes to housing policy has become a problem in its own right. So I think the lack of major new initiatives is not necessarily a significant shortcoming,” Ms Norris says.
The new plan is called Delivering Homes, Building Communities: An Action Plan on Housing Supply and Targeting Homelessness, 2025-2030.
The document has a dual focus: the first is on increasing the supply of new homes to at least double the current rate, an
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