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Housing
Housing Challenges future need for social and
There are many housing challenges affordable housing. It will also
in the county at present including a address the need to ensure a
housing supply shortage, in mixture of house types and sizes to
particular, social housing, pressure reasonably match the requirements
on the rental sector and a growing of the different categories of
affordability gap for those who wish households. It will also address the
to purchase their own homes. need to counteract undue
Wexford County Council has segregation in housing between
engaged a multi-sector approach to people of different social
addressing the housing crisis, backgrounds. Part V has been
working with various bodies to revised to required developers to
address housing supply. These provide 10% of a development of
include approved housing bodies, 10 or more houses for social
RAS, leasing private rented houses housing.
and construction by turnkey. The
Government’s Action Plan for Housing Stock and
Housing ‘Rebuilding Ireland’ is Vacant Housing
tackling the country’s housing Census 2016 recorded a total
shortage and aims to address the housing stock figure of 69,056 units
needs of homeless people and which was an increase of 1.32% on
families in emergency the 2011 figure (68,143). Of this,
accommodation, accelerate the 13,168 units were deemed vacant-
provision of social housing, utilise 6,412 units were vacant residential
vacant homes and improve the properties while the remaining
rental sector. 6,756 were holiday homes. This
represents a housing vacancy rate
Housing Strategy of 9% compared to 11% in 2011.
The new Plan will include a new Enniscorthy Urban, Gorey Urban,
Housing Strategy prepared under New Ross Urban and Wexford
Part V of the Planning and Urban all experienced reductions in
Development Act, 2000 (as vacant housing figures (-33%,
amended). It will include an -22%, -4% and -11% respectively)
estimate of the amount of housing which is a positive sign as it means
required in the county during the the number of people living in our
period of the plan 2019-2025 and town centres has increased.
the existing need and the likely
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