{"id":7888,"date":"2024-10-24T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T13:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2024-10-24T14:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T13:23:19","slug":"voters-deserve-more-than-gaslighting-from-the-housing-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/voters-deserve-more-than-gaslighting-from-the-housing-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters deserve more than gaslighting from the Housing Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u00a0Government has no hope of delivering 40,000 homes by the end of the year\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Housing Minister\u2019s continued insistence that the Government will deliver 40,000 homes this year is at odds with all of the facts and independent analysis, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the CSO, housing completions in the first nine months of the year are down on the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite this, the Housing Minister continues to insist that 40,000 homes will be delivered this year. The Minister has failed to provide any evidence to back up this assertion \u2013 preferring to rely instead on his own bullish optimism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter more than four years in office, the Housing Minister\u2019s record is one of median house price increases of \u20ac85,000 and the serial failure to meet social and affordable housing targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we now face into an election, the Minister is asking voters to ignore forecasts from the ESRI and the Central Bank, which both say housing delivery will not exceed 33,000 homes, and data from the CSO, which confirms falling housing output.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoters deserve more than gaslighting and spin from the Housing Minister. Instead of facing up to falling completion numbers, and outlining what the government proposes to do to turn around this disaster, the Minister is refusing to accept reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat reality is that this government has no hope of delivering 40,000 homes by the end of the year and their housing plan is a failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Government has no hope of delivering 40,000 homes by the end of the year\u00a0 The Housing Minister\u2019s continued insistence that the Government will deliver 40,000 homes this year is at odds with all of the facts and independent analysis, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan. \u201cAccording to the CSO, housing completions in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7888","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 v26.9 - 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