Housing expenditure to be increased 26%

[Brendan Burgess]

Personal tax package worth €291m
€2.3 billion to housing programme.
€93m to local authorities
Increase of €470m over 2018 - a 26% increase.
€6.6 billion will have been provided on housing

 

[Brendan Burgess]

More new homes will be provided this year than in any year in the last decade.

The LDA will provide sites for 3,000 homes
And a further 7,000

10,000 new social homes in 2019
through
Building
Acquisition
Leasing

€121m HAP - 16,000 tenancies next year.

A critical exit for those in emergency accommodation.

€60m in capital funding which will fund additional emergency accommodation and family hubs

€30m to homelessness services