Key points from the report, from social housing to Shannon water and urban sprawl to idle land in towns
The report calls for the size of the social and cost-rental sectors to reach 20 per cent of the national housing stock. Photograph: Derek HudsonState-supported housing, it says, “must be thought of in a broader context than simply catering for the acute needs of Ireland’s most vulnerable people”, and it must also “provide a stable funding anchor” to complement the private sector and focus on the “capacity to shape the market and remove distortions”.There is a big emphasis on infrastructure.
‘We can’t even cry any more, it is too much’: Cancer, lightning, bereavement and scam leave mother of three bereftThere are large chunks of the report here that the Government will doubtlessly say are in train already – such as recommendations to prioritise and extend grants and supports for reuse and retrofitting of vacant buildings, as well as taxing empty buildings and undeveloped land, sharing uplights in land value, or promoting early and effective public participation in planning.
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