The Department of Environment has announced plans to build 1000 more social houses, on top of what they’ve already announced.
It’s after they gave 13 thousand people the keys to their own homes after years on the housing list or living in emergency accommodation.
The houses include councils building new homes, buying them in established estates and refurbishing old stock.
It also includes thousands of homes in the private rented sector.
The plan for 2016 is to get 17 thousand people off the waiting list and give them the keys to their own front door.
Conor Skehan is from the Housing Agency:
“This is what success looks like, this is what a sustainable future for housing in this country will look like is a set of facts and actions that match each other”.
They also want to bring in something called choice based letting, which they hope will reduce the number of people who refuse local authority houses by giving them a way of choosing where they live.
The Department of Environment also announced the building of 1000 new social houses, 182 will be here in Dublin.
The biggest development is 44 units at Rossan Court in Blanchardstown which will cost 13 million Euro to build.
