The Spring 2017 edition of Social Housing covers innovative delivery across the sector, RTB regulation one-year-on, Rebuilding Ireland updates, repair and lease and mortgage to rent information, the National Planning Fraemwork 2040, Peter McVerry's 'Empty Homes' inititaive, the ICSH Tenant Experience Survey 2017 and our recent regional membership meetings.
The winter 2016 edition of Social Housing covers our rent Housing Finace Conference. Again, we track the progress of Rebuilding Ireland and chart Ireland's ever growing homelessness crisis. And a special feature profile Foscadh's Housing recent success with the HFA's Tier 2 lending initiative.
The past year signals change in the social housing landscape in Ireland. After a number of years of significant retrenchment in the social housing programmes, the Social Housing Strategy, launched at the end of 2014 provided a new direction for a signifi cantly expanded social housing programme, and particularly for our own housing association sector. Despite this, we still have a long way to go to make a signifi cant impact on the housing and homelessness crisis, which still needs a long-term commitment by Government.
With the increasing demand in the private rental sector, rent affordability issues and lack of security of tenure, this has created additional pressure on the social housing sector with housing associations responding to an acute demand for emergency accommodation, housing and support services.
Maura Moore (Head of Professional Services & Nonprofits, AIB) and Donal McManus (ICSH) provide insights on the opportunities and challenges facing the social housing sector in Ireland against the backdrop of the Government’s Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Rebuilding Ireland.
The Autumn edition 2016 of Social Housing focuses on the Government's husing strategy Rebuilding Ireland, details from Budget 2017 impacting on the sector, a new pilot housing project for older people, as well as news from members around the country and housing issues from overseas.
The ICSH submission to to Housing Action Plan focuses on an overall objective to increase the stock of permanent social and affordable housing with additional objectives and actions outlined.
Housing associations have been playing their part to provide homes to those most in need through every output category available to them. In addition, the Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH) and its members have been working on a number of new initiatives for delivery which have the potential to make a real difference with sufficient government support to the sector. This publication is a summary of activity, output and projections for the future from housing associations all with a collective mission to deliver affordable and quality homes to those most in need.
This bulletin is produced by the Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH), the federation for non-profit housing associations which represents approximately 270 members. The sector manages over 30,000 homes for families on a low income, older people, people with disabilities and homeless households in every local authority area.