As Sinn Féin housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin slated the cost of the new affordable home scheme in Shanganagh Castle, Shankill, Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien accused him of “opposition for opposition sake”.
Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien and Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin have started another public spat over the cost of a new affordable housing development.
The project, delivered by the Land Development Agency , will deliver a total of 597 homes. Phase one includes 51 affordable purchase houses, 195 cost-rental apartments and 35 social apartments. Eligible buyers can apply to purchase the 51 houses on October 9, while the application portal for the cost rental apartments will open later this year.
Deputy Ó Broin argued that when a person has to repay the equity share, the actual purchase price of the homes ranges from “€478k for a two-bed home to €550k for a three-bed home” “Buyers beware, is neither home ownership nor affordable housing. It is overpriced market housing that is unaffordable to the vast majority of working people.
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