Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 31 January 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Discussion
Dr. Conor O'Toole:
I would echo one of the points Dr. O'Connor made. While our particular research did not consider the composition of the output between the various different components, it is clear that over time a heightened share of that will have to be affordable and social housing in whatever dimension that is constituted. Building up to that higher share in terms of the new output will have to take place over time. We have not done any specific work on examining what share of new households formed every year will fall into the categories, although we are always building up our research infrastructure and, hopefully, with some of the new models we hope to put in place in the next year or so, we will be able to look at demographic transitions and housing tenure. We hope to consider that on a medium-term basis.
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