'We went from building thousands of new council homes every year to zero'
A couple of years ago I warned that we needed to start building thousands of new council homes every year if we wanted to solve the housing crisis. We had a duty as a nation to provide affordable housing for low income families or the whole fabric of our society would disintegrate.
READ MORE:'I regard proper pubs as David Attenborough views the Serengeti, with curiosity, affection and protective concern' But then we decided to stop building council houses altogether and to get the private developers to ensure that 10pc of each new development built was to be given to people on the council housing lists. This was to be called social housing and the council would pay for these new homes.
The Government has a target of 9,300 new social homes for 2024 but only 158 were delivered in the first quarter of the year. The Housing Minister Darragh O' Brien said most of these homes are traditionally delivered in the third or fourth quarter of the year. He also hopes to provide 6,000 affordable homes.
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