Overview
- The plan commits to 72,000 social homes and 90,000 Starter Home supports under a 2025–2030 framework that sets an aggregate goal rather than yearly quotas.
- The Land Development Agency receives an extra €2.5 billion, lifting its funding to €8.75 billion and expanding its land acquisition and delivery role.
- Government signals a large financing mix, citing €28.2bn in state funding for housing-related spending, more than €9bn in 2026 via the Exchequer, LDA and HFA, and an estimated €20bn per year needed overall.
- Measures to cut homelessness include more than €100m next year to buy homes for long-waiting families, a prevention framework, and expanded incentives to bring vacant and derelict properties back into use.
- Ministers defend the lack of annual targets as opponents and some developers argue the approach reduces accountability and say delivery depends on unblocking planning, legal and infrastructure constraints, with the Government preparing legislation for critical projects such as Greater Dublin Drainage.