{"id":1764,"date":"2022-01-26T17:06:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T17:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/housing-ministers-record-is-one-of-failure\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T17:06:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T17:06:59","slug":"housing-ministers-record-is-one-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/housing-ministers-record-is-one-of-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Minister&#8217;s Record Is One Of Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The Minister\u2019s record to date is one of failure. No amount of spin can change this.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The latest update on the Housing for All plan reveals the Government is rich on promises for the future and exceptionally poor on actual delivery, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo affordable purchase homes were delivered in 2021. This is an absolute failure on the part of the Government. Incredibly the Housing for All update doesn\u2019t even provide a mention of this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the 2020 general election, Fianna F\u00e1il promised 10,000 affordable homes each year. However, in 2021 not a single affordable purchase home was completed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn an International Scale Housing Affordability in Ireland is rated as severely unaffordable. Between 2012 and 2020 house prices grew by a staggering 77%. We have a huge affordability crisis that is being ignored by the Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government\u2019s update also fails to mention the number of social homes built in 2021. Instead, the report only provides figures for the number of homes that are currently under construction or are in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Housing for All update published today shows the Minister has missed target after target. Crucially, every target in relation to vacancy and dereliction has been missed. More than 90,000 properties are vacant, and the Minister is still sitting on his hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister said he would introduce a new Compulsory Purchase Order programme, for vacant properties, by the end of last year. This hasn\u2019t been done. He said he would ensure that every Local Authority had a full time Vacant Homes Officer. This hasn\u2019t been done. He said he would reform the Fair Deal scheme. This hasn\u2019t been done. He said all Government Departments would make unused properties available for housing. This hasn\u2019t been done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister\u2019s record to date is one of failure. No amount of spin can change this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister\u2019s record to date is one of failure. No amount of spin can change this. The latest update on the Housing for All plan reveals the Government is rich on promises for the future and exceptionally poor on actual delivery, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan. \u201cNo affordable purchase homes were delivered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cian-ocallaghan","category-housing-crisis","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Housing Minister&#039;s Record Is One Of Failure - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/housing-ministers-record-is-one-of-failure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Housing Minister&#039;s Record Is One Of Failure - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Minister\u2019s record to date is one of failure. 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