Co-operative view on the review of Rebuilding Ireland

Co-operative Housing Ireland has made a submission to the Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government (DHPLG) on the review of Rebuilding Ireland calling for a radical review of Irish housing policy.  In the submission, which can be accessed here, we propose:

• Recognising the need for a radically different long-term approach to housing provision and developing a comprehensive new plan to meet this need
• Expanding the objectives of the plan to recognise the right of every household to secure, decent, affordable accommodation
• Sustaining and improving housing quality standards in terms of space and environmental performance
• Phasing out the practice of providing social housing through the private rental sector
• Achieving meaningful security of tenure by reviewing the reasons provided for terminating tenancies
• Ending the practice of housing homeless families in emergency accommodation through an expansion of social housing provision
• Radically re-assessing the policy objectives around mixed tenure housing and the scale of social housing provision
• Supporting the capacity of AHBs and reviewing the Payment and Availability Agreement
• Developing a more active approach to the management development lands
• Exploring a range of fiscal measures that could boost supply and support affordability
• Urgently supporting innovation in rental provision including affordable rental and co-housing
• Developing a more proactive approach to supporting the re-use of vacant properties