Congress calls for 50,000 social housing units
Campaign demands penalties for hoarding land
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The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has called on the government to urgently initiate a major local-authority led programme to generate 50,000 social housing units over the next five years, introduce measures to penalise ‘land hoarding’, speed the planning process and create a new rental model for Ireland.
Launching its campaign to tackle the housing and homeless crisis in September, Congress President Sheila Nunan said that government must now take the lead on social housing provision, through the local authorities.
“The housing crisis now defines our society, for all the wrong reasons and in all the wrong ways. Ceding control of the housing market entirely to the private sector has utterly failed. The state must now step in and assume responsibility for social housing provision in order to rebalance the broken housing market and vindicate the citizen’s basic right to a home and shelter.
Read more here and watch the Congress campaign video here.
The full policy document is available here.
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