Vacant property refurbishment grants will be expanded as part of the Government’s new housing plan which will be published this morning.<\/p>\n
The new housing plan – ‘Delivering Homes, Building Communities’ – will pledge that a minimum of 300,000 new homes will be built up to 2030.<\/p>\n
It is expected to state this is not an upper limit, but a realistic projection of what is achievable by getting the public and private sector working effectively together.<\/p>\n
A new \u20ac400 million tranche of equity to support smaller construction companies to build homes will also be included in the plan.<\/p>\n
The strategy will aim to convert more vacant shops and premises into homes with funding of up to \u20ac140,000 per property set to be made available.<\/p>\n
There will be finance for expert advice on how best to turn these spaces into residential units.<\/p>\n
The Above The Shop top-up grant could also be extended to include properties that are owned by small companies.<\/p>\n
Overall, the plan hopes to bring 20,000 homes back into use through the Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant.<\/p>\n
Councils will provide serviced sites close to towns where social and affordable homes can be built along with self-build houses.<\/p>\n
Minister of State at the Department of Housing John Cummins told a Fine Gael meeting last night that there will effectively be a league table of councils measuring performance on home delivery and efforts to tackle dereliction and vacancy.<\/p>\n
The best performing will then get more funding.<\/p>\n
For renters, the Residential Tenancy Board\u2019s deadlines to resolve disputes will be put on a statutory footing.<\/p>\n
The income thresholds for local authority loans will also be reviewed.<\/p>\n
A plan to allow modular homes without planning permission in gardens is set to be finalised in the new year.<\/p>\n
Read more: Under the plan, the State will deliver 72,000 social homes.<\/p>\n It promises that this will ensure those most in need have access to a good quality home of their own.<\/p>\n It recognised that homelessness is the single most pressing social issue that the country faces.<\/p>\n 90,000 starter homes are pledged under the plan which Government believes will enable thousands of people to realise their dream of homeownership.<\/p>\n The plan will aim to support the private sector to deliver homes at much greater scale by providing more zoned and serviced land; reducing planning, legal and regulatory delays and by increasing investment in public infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vacant property refurbishment grants will be expanded as part of the Government’s new housing plan which will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-137266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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