{"id":839,"date":"2019-12-03T07:06:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T07:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/socdems-outline-10-immediate-actions-a-new-housing-minister-should-take-following-no-confidence-vote\/"},"modified":"2019-12-03T07:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T07:06:22","slug":"socdems-outline-10-immediate-actions-a-new-housing-minister-should-take-following-no-confidence-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/socdems-outline-10-immediate-actions-a-new-housing-minister-should-take-following-no-confidence-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"SocDems outline 10 immediate actions for new housing minister following No Confidence vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking in advance of the Social Democrats \u2018No Confidence\u2019 motion in the Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy TD to be debated in the D\u00e1il on Tuesday evening, 3rd\u00a0Dec, co-leaders Catherine Murphy TD and R\u00f3isin Shortall TD outlined 10 immediate actions a new Housing Minister should undertake.<\/p>\n

Catherine Murphy TD<\/strong>\u00a0said: \u201cOur motion on Tuesday evening aims to call a halt to the policies being pursued by this Minister and this Government in their failed attempts to address the housing emergency. Their policies have failed. The Minister has failed. It is time for a radical rethink and a \u2018war footing\u2019 approach to tackling this crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a start, we believe there are 10 immediate actions that a new Housing Minister should take in rethinking how to address the plight of people seeking a home they can afford to rent or buy or those who face homelessness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThese include establishing a proper Housing Delivery Agency, prioritising the delivery of homes that are affordable to buy or rent, including urgently developing an affordable purchase scheme and a cost rental scheme. Land use is crucial, from using public land banks for affordable housing to tackling land hoarding and vacant land. And its long past time to end the favourable tax treatment for REITS and Cuckoo funds. We have to put the interests of our people ahead of the interests of international capital.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Full list of 10 immediate actions is below]<\/em><\/p>\n

Co-leader\u00a0R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD<\/strong>, calling out the Government and Fianna F\u00e1il spin that the motion would precipitate a Christmas General Election said:<\/p>\n

\u201cOur motion is clear \u2013 we have no confidence in Eoghan Murphy TD as the Housing Minister. We expect opposition TDs across the D\u00e1il to stand by their pronouncements of the failure of Rebuilding Ireland and a failure by this Housing minister to get to grips with the housing emergency.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur motion seeks to change the Housing Minister and reboot how our Government tackles the housing affordability and homelessness emergency in which the country is mired. Homes are not commodities, to be governed by \u2018the market\u2019. The Government approach is just wrong. The housing emergency they are presiding over threatens the social and economic welfare of people and communities throughout the country. It\u2019s time for this Minster to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

ENDS
\n2nd December 2019<\/p>\n

SocDems List of 10 immediate actions a new Housing Minister should undertake<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. Establish a Housing Delivery Agency with proper, powerful teeth and targets in place of the proposed weak Land Development Agency<\/li>\n
  2. Prioritise public land banks for housing that is affordable to buy or rent and for social housing<\/li>\n
  3. Allow Approved Housing Bodies to borrow off the Government Balance Sheet<\/li>\n
  4. Develop and fund a proper affordable purchase scheme<\/li>\n
  5. Urgently design and adequately fund a cost-rental scheme (the Vienna model)<\/li>\n
  6. Implement a nationwide Rent Freeze for at least two years, strengthen renters\u2019 rights and outlaw unfair practices by rogue landlords<\/li>\n
  7. Incentivise the use of vacant homes, including reform of the Fair Deal Scheme<\/li>\n
  8. Implement an effective Vacant Land levy with no loopholes and tackle land hoarding with tax on serviced land zoned residential<\/li>\n
  9. Abolish all special tax benefits for REITS or the so-called \u2018Cuckoo-funds\u2019<\/li>\n
  10. End the over-reliance on the Housing Assistance Payment by building more social housing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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