Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 December 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Brendan McGrath:

Exactly that. The Central Statistics Office, CSO, said we have 3,500 vacant homes. The Geodirectory said we have 200.

Through our vacant homes office we have gone out and identified what is there. Approximately 100 of those are potentially available to us. We did a survey of 100 homes and discovered 70 were not vacant. Of the remaining 30 there were problems to do with gentrification, people in nursing homes, "fair deal", probates and family disputes. The number of houses available is considerably lower than appears on paper.

We are actively looking at the brownfield sites and have processes in place to deal with several of those. Where we can acquire properties we are doing that. One of the reasons we have more than 60 void homes at the moment is that the ones we have bought are now in our void stock, being renovated to go into the social housing stream.

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