There are long waiting lists for childcare places, doctors and mental-health services, says Fiona Carney, interim CEO of FamiliBase.
Tag: affordable housing
Posted inUnreal Estate
No Homes Yet in Dublin City from Key Funding Scheme for Affordable Rentals
None of the second round of affordable rental homes funded with help from the government’s Cost Rental Equity Loan scheme will be in the city. None of the first were either.
Posted inUnreal Estate
Council Has Again Nudged Back Timeline for Hundreds of “Affordable” and Social Homes in Inchicore
It’s also expecting to bump up the number of homes to be built on the land at St Michael’s Estate, suggests a response to a councillor’s query.
Posted inCity Desk
Council Briefs: Safer Communities in Council Housing, and Zoning for Affordable Housing
These were two of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at a recent meeting of their housing committee.
Posted inUnreal Estate
Create a Way to Zone Land So Housing Built There Must Be Mostly Social and Affordable, Councillors Propose
Councillors from several parties have banded together to back the motion. Dublin City Council CEO Owen Keegan says that’s not what zoning is for.
Posted inUnreal Estate
Councillors Consider Whether to Back New Plan for Hundreds of Proposed Homes on Council Land at Oscar Traynor Road
Dublin City Council would sell the site to developer Glenveagh, which would agree to build 853 homes there, which would all be social and affordable, say officials. But what does affordable mean?
Posted inUnreal Estate
New Compromise on Council-Owned Land at Oscar Traynor Road Could Mean Hundreds of Social and Affordable Homes
But the homes would still be built by a private developer, instead of by Dublin City Council, as councillors had wanted when they rejected the last plan for the site.
Posted inUnreal Estate
A Charity Aims to Help Care Leavers, Who Are Student Mums, with Stable Housing
Empower the Family wants to provide affordable homes and childcare for students leaving care who are mums. It’s looking for a council site in Ballymun to start out.
Posted inUnreal Estate
Councillors on Public Housing Working Group Present Findings
Since last February, councillors in a cross-party working group have met, to thrash out what a new model for public housing for the city should look like.
Posted inUnreal Estate
Delays with Housing Fund Leave Some Questioning Its Efficacy
“It doesn’t represent value for money,” says Sinn Féin TD and housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin.