Population rise from Census to feed into increase in Government's housing targets

Work on revising the Government's housing targets is to begin in the autumn, with expectations the new figure could be set higher than 40,000 per year

WORK ON REVISING the Government’s housing targets is to begin in the autumn, with expectations that the new figure could be set higher than 40,000 per year, with a push to get it out to 60,000 homes per year.

The Housing Commission is understood to have said that Ireland may need up to 62,000 homes built per year until 2050 to meet demand. It is understood the new CSO data will inform the Housing Department’s current work with the ESRI to update the country’s National Planning Framework and Housing for All targets.

Specifically, they said the CSO data release on population distribution, which is due at the end of June, will need to be looked at. ESRI review A critical piece of updating the housing targets will be to update the ESRI’s previous independent and peer-reviewed research on structural housing demand.

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