{"id":411654,"date":"2026-04-22T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411654\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:30:11","slug":"councillors-to-meet-housing-body-over-its-decision-to-scrap-cost-rental-scheme-in-cabra-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411654\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillors to meet housing body over its decision to scrap cost-rental scheme in Cabra \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Housing association Cl\u00faid <\/a>is to meet Dublin city councillors<\/a> next week over the failure of a north Dublin cost-rental scheme that was meant to be built on land provided by the local authority. <\/p>\n

Councillors have questioned the legitimacy of Cl\u00faid\u2019s decision to scrap the cost-rental element of the complex of more than 140 apartments in Cabra and change it to 100 per cent social housing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cl\u00faid, one of the State\u2019s largest non-profit housing bodies, is building 144 homes on the site at Bannow Road, close to Broombridge rail station. <\/p>\n

Most of the homes were designated for social housing, but 40 were to be used for a cost-rental scheme to provide homes for workers who earn too much to qualify for social housing but cannot afford private market rents.<\/p>\n

The council said it had been informed by Cl\u00faid that it \u201ccan no longer deliver\u201d the 40 cost-rental homes as this \u201celement of the scheme is unviable\u201d due to rising costs. <\/p>\n

In response to queries, Cl\u00faid said the future maintenance costs at Bannow Road had pushed the cost-rental element beyond viability.<\/p>\n

\u201cRising costs in areas such as planned maintenance, cyclical costs and component replacement mean that it would not be possible to deliver these as cost-rental homes with rents 25 per cent below market rate,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Cl\u00faid has applied to the Department of Housing to change the designation of 40 of the 144 homes from cost-rental to social homes and was \u201cconfident\u201d the department would support it.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the department said it would consider the application.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Dublin cost-rental scheme dropped over rising costsOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Independent councillor Cieran Perry said the council transferred the site to Cl\u00faid on the basis that cost-rental housing would be provided there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not up to Cl\u00faid to decide what tenure or income mix would be on the site, and it is concerning that they have already applied to the Department of Housing,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we can have a private company basically changing housing policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision must not be made without consultation with councillors, Perry added. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe won\u2019t be accepting Cl\u00faid making this decision regardless of what the Department of Housing did say. We agreed to the disposal on the basis we were getting cost-rental in Cabra.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in councillor S\u00e9amas McGrattan said there was huge disappointment locally over the loss of the cost-rental element. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the option for people who don\u2019t meet the criteria for social housing \u2013 that option is now gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fact Cl\u00faid had cited the cost of future maintenance rather than construction as making the scheme unviable was of particular concern, he added. \u201cI think it makes every cost-rental project in the city now unviable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Housing association Cl\u00faid is to meet Dublin city councillors next week over the failure of a north Dublin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,177983,12466,13288,61,60,3415,13289],"class_list":["post-411654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cluid-housing","tag-department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage","tag-dublin-city-council","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sinn-fein","tag-social-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411654","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=411654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}