{"id":143784,"date":"2025-11-17T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/143784\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:56:10","slug":"older-people-will-be-able-to-subdivide-homes-into-flats-under-new-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/143784\/","title":{"rendered":"Older people will be able to subdivide homes into flats under new plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Junior Minister John Cummins with Miche\u00e1l Martin and Simon Harris (right and centre) at the new housing plan launch last week. Photo: Sam Boal\/Collins Photos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bc82b906-6ebf-46d8-83bd-60b7c8869c03.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Junior Minister John Cummins with Miche\u00e1l Martin and Simon Harris (right and centre) at the new housing plan launch last week. Photo: Sam Boal\/Collins Photos<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Junior housing minister John Cummins has confirmed proposals that will allow older people to subdivide their homes into flats will be brought forward in an attempt to boost housing supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Housing Minister James Browne has moved away from plans that would encourage older people to downsize and is instead examining a plan that would allow older people to split their family homes into flats, the Sunday Times reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Junior Minister John Cummins with Miche\u00e1l Martin and Simon Harris (right and centre) at the new housing plan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-143784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143784","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=143784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}