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