In Ringsend, 176 new social homes sit empty due to funding paperwork delays
There are over 1,000 households on the council’s social housing lists for the area.
Hines has offered the council 60 studios for an average of €300,000 each in the developer’s planned complex on Clonliffe Road in Drumcondra.
Councillors weren’t impressed by that idea – or the plan for all the social homes to be clustered at one end of one apartment block.
The council says it wants mixed neighbourhoods so it tries to gets its slice of “Part V” social housing on-site in new developments. Costs mean it’s looking to relax that.