The Housing Alliance calls for clear policy and multi-annual funding to deliver 300,000-home plan
The Housing Alliance is calling on the Government to set clear consistent policy and commit to long-term funding as it prepares to publish the revised housing plan. Housing for All 2.0 has to be the roadmap of how the State will deliver the committed 300,000 homes by 2030.
In a new report launched today, the Alliance highlights the essential role of Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) in delivering Ireland’s housing targets and warns that policy shifts or short-term funding commitments risk undermining delivery.
The Housing Alliance is a collaboration of Ireland’s seven largest AHBs who together own or manage more than 50,000 homes for more than 120,000 people. Members currently deliver around half of all new social homes and a significant share of cost rental homes.
Record of delivery and future pipeline
The report‘The essential impact of Ireland’s Approved Housing Bodies: Delivering homes. Securing Futures’ shows that in 2023 and 2024 alone, Housing Alliance members delivered 10,000 social homes and more than 1,500 Cost Rental homes.
They now have firm plans in place to deliver another 26,000 homes by the end of 2028, providing homes for almost 70,000 people.
Commenting on the need for stability to deliver this ambitious pipeline,Kieron Brennan, Vice-Chair of the Housing Alliance and CEO of Co-operative Housing Irelandsaid:
“Approved Housing Bodies have significantly increased their output in recent years, providing more social and cost-rental homes for people who desperately need them.
“We have ambitious pipelines, capacity and expertise, to deliver thousands more homes in the next five years. For this to happen, Government must provide clear long-term policy and secure multi-annual funding. With that certainty, we can continue to deliver the homes and communities Ireland urgently needs.”
A proven partner in delivering homes
Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) are not-for-profit organisations that have a social purpose to meet people’s housing needs, working closely with Government, local authorities and relevant agencies. They have a proven track record of delivering social and affordable housing at scale to bolster the supply of social homes to help meet needs.
Mr. Brennan continued: “As not-for-profit organisations, our members share a deep-rooted purpose and commitment to deliver social and cost-rental homes in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
“With more than 26,000 additional homes in our pipeline to 2028, the sector is ready and able to continue delivering at scale. But certainty and long-term support from the Government are vital if Ireland is to meet its social housing needs.”
Why the work of the Housing Alliance’s members matters: Kim’s story
Kim never thought she would be able to live independently in her own accommodation, up until the beginning of 2025, when she joined Respond’s community of tenants.
Living with the incurable illness Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder that affects Kim’s entire body, saw her go from living alone and working as a midwife to moving back home with her parents, being almost bed bound and needing a wheelchair to leave the house.
After being selected for a life-changing treatment trial which dramatically improved her health, Kim started to believe she may be able to live alone again and applied to a new Respond development near her parents in Dundalk, Co Louth.
“When Respond offered me this apartment it was honestly a dream come true, my own little space. I’m still in hospital most weeks for tests, treatments or appointments with my consultants but I can live with that.
“It was a massive thing for both my parents and me to be able to live on my own again. Respond have made the whole process very smooth, from finding out about the apartment to getting the keys was only a week.
“I really enjoy living in a Respond neighbourhood, I’ve made some friends, and we check in on each other and help each other out when needed.”
Example projects recently delivered by Housing Alliance members
Circle Voluntary Housing Association’s age-friendly housing ‘pathfinder’ project: Richmond Place, an award-winning Housing with Supports (HWS) development in Inchicore, recently delivered 52 purpose-built, age-friendly apartments designed to enable older people to live with independence, dignity and strong community connections.
The scheme offers a mix of innovative 1.5-bedroom and 2-bedroom apartments, tailored to meet a diverse range of care and lifestyle needs. The 1.5-bedroom homes provide flexibility for live-in carers or occasional overnight family stays, while the 2-bedroom units are well-suited for couples, siblings, or residents requiring additional space due to health or support requirements.
Strategically located within 500 metres of key amenities—including a health centre, GP services, shops, and Inchicore’s community heart—Richmond Place ensures residents have easy access to the daily supports they need.
As a ‘pathfinder project’, Richmond Place was created to test how enhanced design, generous space standards, and on-site services can positively impact the quality of life for older adults with varying support needs. Already recognised as an exemplar of design and construction standards, early indications show that Richmond Place is delivering measurable benefits for residents, with many tenants experiencing a reduction in their care and support needs.
Clúid – The Innovation Partnership: The Innovation Partnership is a new approach to procurement which Clúid is now implementing when setting up partnerships across its projects, with the goal on improving both delivery speed and the environmental footprint of its housing developments.
Clúid and the partner work collaboratively from the earliest project stages to design and build high quality homes for our tenants. The focus on the partnership is to promote lean construction methodologies and to develop a suitable methodology for measuring, recording and reducing embodied carbon in construction.
Clúid will use the partnership model for all suitable projects in excess of 50 units nationwide over the next four to six years.
Gem Construction was awarded the Innovation Partnership with Clúid and is currently working on two large Dublin city centre sites which will deliver over 450 new homes.
The Iveagh Trust’s Stonemount Park project: Stonemount Park delivers 418 homes in Ballyfermot, Co. Dublin. Built by Dwyer Nolan, the new development goes above and beyond by providing BER A-rated social homes with estate managers and caretakers living on site to support our residents. This ongoing support and the A-rated efficiency of the homes means they are future-proofed and suitable for a variety of ages and family make-ups.
Block B, which consists of 128 homes, was delivered in March 2025 and is now being tenanted. Block C consists of 101 homes and Block D consists of 189 homes and will be finished in the coming months.
Linh Nguyen, a mother of two and a professional powerlifter, spent 15 years in the private rental sector under the HAP scheme. After a period of uncertainty, Linh finally received the call she had been waiting for. Linh and her two children now have the security of their three-bed forever home in Stonemount Park.
* Additional case studies are available on request.
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