Fall in number of homes provided to such people in recent years, says Irish Council for Social Housing
Smaller homes, and supported housing schemes, are not being built at the same rate as general social housing, despite a growing demographic of older people, Mr McManus said.
“There are 6,000 people on the waiting list who are older persons and people with disabilities. In the past we had about 50 per cent of delivery from housing associations that was supported housing and 50 per cent general needs,” he said. Although the figures were encouraging, there was a need to ensure housing bodies were not “overburdened with debt financing”, Mr McManus said.
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