Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of AHF homes, CREL homes, LDA cost rental homes, and any other homes to be delivered via the affordable housing funding not included in the listed categories by local authority for each of the years 2022 to 2026, in tabular form. [57302/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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A five year delivery target from 2022 - 2026 has been set under Housing for All, for 28,500 affordable homes to be delivered for affordable purchase and cost rental across the various delivery streams.

In implementing the key objectives under Housing for All, each local authority has prepared and published a Housing Delivery Action Plan in respect of local authority supported or overseen delivery from 2022 to 2026. 18 local authorities with a strong and identified affordable housing need were asked to include their planned affordable housing delivery in their Action Plans. I have also set individual five-year Affordable Housing delivery targets for those local authorities.

Furthermore, local authorities have been begun collating information on delivery of affordable homes in their area in the same manner as is currently done for social housing. It is intended that information on delivery across all delivery streams will be gathered by my Department and I expect that my Department will be in a position to begin reporting on affordable delivery in national quarterly delivery statistics by the end of this year.

2022 represents the commencement of a very ambitious programme of delivery of affordable housing. This momentum will continue with delivery significantly increasing in 2023. A pipeline of affordable housing delivery is being developed by local authorities, by approved housing bodies using the Cost Rental Equity Loan and by the Land Development Agency.

The Housing for All Action Plan Update was published on 2 November 2022. The section entitled “Planning the required number of homes”, sets out the Government’s approach to reviewing current targets and projections including the refreshing of the overall national housing targets and the subsets of social, affordable and market delivery, having regard to progress already made, to ensure that the overall housing need is met in line with the original vision of Housing for All.

With regard to affordable housing, annual national delivery targets were published in Housing for All (Figure 3, page 32) for the year 2022 to 2030 inclusive. This overall target of 54,000 affordable homes comprises some 36,000 affordable purchase homes, as well as 18,000 cost rental homes. Overall targets within affordable delivery streams will be revised per the approach set out above.