{"id":6649,"date":"2024-06-26T12:54:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2024-06-26T12:54:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:54:21","slug":"so-called-affordable-housing-scheme-not-fit-for-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/so-called-affordable-housing-scheme-not-fit-for-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"So-called affordable housing scheme not fit for purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long anticipated affordable purchase housing at Oscar Traynor Woods in north Dublin has finally been advertised for sale \u2013 but the prices are anything but affordable, according to Social Democrats TD Cian O\u2019Callaghan.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy O\u2019Callaghan, who is the party\u2019s housing spokesperson, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst time buyers will be paying up to \u20ac475,000 for a so-called affordable three-bedroom home in this development. This means that only someone earning over \u20ac100,000 is eligible for affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government have taken a brilliant idea with huge potential and managed to turn it into farce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Affordable Housing Act, which legislated for this new form of housing, made the crucial mistake of defining affordability as a discount on the full market price.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the market price has continued to spiral out of control, so too has the price of so-called affordable homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now seeing the results, with supposedly affordable housing on State-owned land being sold for nearly half a million euro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAffordable housing has the potential to really tackle this housing crisis if it is done right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHigh quality three-bed affordable purchase homes in Dublin have recently been built by \u00d3 Cualann, an Approved Housing Body, and sold at a price of \u20ac295,450.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the model the Government should be investing in \u2013 genuinely affordable homes built on State lands on a not-for-profit basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOscar Traynor Woods, between Coolock and Santry, is just the latest example of a Government scheme that\u2019s good for political spin but totally ineffective and wasteful in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proper way to deliver affordable homes is staring them in the face \u2013 they need to wake up and act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>June 26, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long anticipated affordable purchase housing at Oscar Traynor Woods in north Dublin has finally been advertised for sale \u2013 but the prices are anything but affordable, according to Social Democrats TD Cian O\u2019Callaghan. 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