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Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien has announced the allocation of funding of €40 million for the return of approximately 2,500 vacant local authority properties to productive use.
Minister O’Brien said:
"As part of the July Stimulus I secured an extra €40 million in funding for the refurbishment of social housing stock.
"This funding will be used to target 2,500 social housing units across the country so that they can be re-let to individuals and families struggling with homelessness or on the social housing list.
"I have asked local authorities to take immediate steps to ensure that work on refurbishing vacant homes begins straight away.
"The funding will make extra social housing stock available quickly and will have a knock on economic benefit by generating further employment to local builders, carpenters, painters, plumbers, electricians and so on."
Allocation of funding is as follows:
| Local Authority | Overall Stock Percentage NOAC 2018 | €40 million allocation but assign €30 million initially (hold €10 million for reassignment post receipt of submissions) |
| Carlow | 1.26 | €379,448 |
| Cavan | 1.50 | €451,290 |
| Clare | 1.84 | €552,936 |
| Cork City | 6.66 | €1,996,886 |
| Cork County | 5.69 | €1,707,073 |
| Donegal | 3.55 | €1,065,391 |
| Dublin City | 19.01 | €5,702,847 |
| DLR | 3.26 | €976,868 |
| Fingal | 3.86 | €1,159,030 |
| Galway City | 1.73 | €519,351 |
| Galway County | 1.77 | €530,027 |
| Kerry | 3.12 | €935,276 |
| Kildare | 3.03 | €909,030 |
| Kilkenny | 1.76 | €528,025 |
| Laois | 1.59 | €477,313 |
| Leitrim | 0.71 | €211,744 |
| Limerick | 3.91 | €1,174,377 |
| Longford | 1.44 | €433,274 |
| Louth | 2.83 | €847,865 |
| Mayo | 1.54 | €463,078 |
| Meath | 2.31 | €693,060 |
| Monaghan | 1.14 | €342,749 |
| Offaly | 1.34 | €403,247 |
| Roscommon | 1 | €298,932 |
| Sligo | 1.58 | €473,532 |
| South Dublin | 7.06 | €2,118,772 |
| Tipperary | 3.70 | €1,110,765 |
| Waterford | 3.78 | €1,133,452 |
| Westmeath | 1.41 | €424,377 |
| Wexford | 3.33 | €999,110 |
| Wicklow | 3.27 | €980,872 |
| 100 | €30,000,000 |
To achieve the maximum impact across all local authorities there will be a three-pronged approach to the Voids stimulus programme:
This is a fast-tracked standard refurbishment programme with a maximum funding level of €12,500 per unit. The department is targeting 2,000 social housing units to be refurbished and re-let to individuals and families on the social housing list this year.
Under the homeless category, the department will be seeking proposals for the refurbishment of local authority housing targeted towards long-term homeless households. The maximum funding provision is €20,000 per unit to cover extra works/supports as required. The target is for 300 social housing units to be refurbished and re-let to house long-term homeless individuals and families.
Under this category the department is seeking proposals for the refurbishment of local authority housing targeted at long-term vacant units (greater than 12 months) which require extensive works. There will be no upper limit set and individual submissions will be assessed on a case by case basis. It is hoped that funding can be provided for 200 units under this category (a capped work schedule is not applicable).
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