| Minister warns of massive new demand
for housing in Ireland  IT
HAS emerged that Ireland will need 600,000 new homes over the next nine
years if they are to keep abreast of demand.
But despite this obvious pressure the Minister for Housing and Urban Renewal
Noel Ahern warned quality should be top of the agenda when building.
Mr Ahern said: “Meeting the housing needs of a growing population
presents challenges.
“But it also provides a great opportunity to deliver new developments
of the highest physical and environmental quality.
“This offers an opportunity to consider on the one hand the interventions
we make in housing and planning and on the other the sense of belonging,
which housing, new and old, ought to engender.”
The theme of this year’s National Housing Conference which is based
in Dublin this week for the first time in 30 years is Transforming The
Irish Housing Environment: Policy And Implementation.
Mr Ahern said that while he expects a levelling off of supply he estimates
that 600,000 new homes will be needed over the coming nine years.
He also noted greater price moderation in many areas of the country but
insisted the government was by no means complacent over the issue. |
