Hope springs eternal as construction of 1,034 new homes gets underway Kilcarbery Grange is first major housing scheme in Rebuilding Ireland plan
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While the Government continues to contend with the clear and present danger posed to the public by the Covid-19 pandemic , the threat presented to its own survival by Ireland’s ongoing housing shortage hasn’t gone away you know.
With the delivery of 64 per cent of new home schemes delayed by up to six months by public health restrictions on construction according to new research from Knight Frank, the crisis that a succession of housing ministers have tried, and so far failed to address, has merely been compounded.
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State must be involved in direct delivery of affordable homes to buy and rent With government borrowing at negative interest rates, now is the time to invest in critical infrastructure
Fri, Jan 8, 2021, 04:47 Eoin O Broin
The private sector residential development model is broken. It cannot deliver genuinely affordable homes for working people. Photograph: Getty Images
Delivering genuinely affordable homes for working people to rent and buy will be one of Government’s biggest challenges in 2021. Despite the pandemic, prices continue to rise. Data from Daft.ie, the Residential Tenancies Board and a range of industry sources all show a one-way trend.