Ms ?ine Stapleton:

Of the social housing allocations last year, approximately 33% were transfers from HAP properties. We are looking at a suite of social housing solutions. As we ramp up the building of new social homes, HAP and RAS provide an opportunity for those most vulnerable and in need of housing support to have it. It is useful to look at it as part of an overall suite of measures to deliver social housing solutions. The transfer option allows those in a HAP or RAS property, who wish to transfer to permanent social housing, to move to the transfer list. That seems to be working quite effectively and it then frees up private rental properties as those HAP tenants move into new-build social homes.