New housing plan promises 300,000 new homes. Can it deliver?
In hard hats and high-vis jackets, Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Simon Harris and Minister for Housing James Browne looked the part at Thursday’s launch of “Delivering Homes, Building Communities, 2025-2030″, the Government’s latest grand plan to tackle the housing crisis.
By 2030, it is committed to delivering 300,000 new homes. It’s an ambitious target.
But who is going to build these new homes and how can that target be met given successive governments’ failure to meet far more modest goals?
Will private developers be tempted to ramp up the delivery of apartment schemes? And given the…
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