Social housing completions under target again
Social housing completions under target again - The Labour Party
- 9,089 delivered with target of 10,000 for 2025
- New social housing target of 12,000 woefully inadequate
Labour’s housing spokesperson Conor Sheehan TD said the evidence is clear that Housing for all has utterly failed and that Minister James Browne is not delivering anywhere near enough social housing in his new housing plan.
Under questioning from Deputy Sheehan in the Dáil today, Minister Browne confirmed that 9,089 social homes were built in 2025 out of a target of 10,000.
This comes after the social and affordable targets under Housing for All were missed every single year.
Deputy Sheehan said:
“The targets for social and affordable housing were never met under Housing for All.
“This is causing the housing defecit to grow year on year. Under Housing for all, there is a shortfall of at least 10,000 social homes.
“Minister Browne’s targets under Delivering Homes Building Communities are too low and will not meet the level of unmet demand as over 113,000 people need social housing support.
“Minister Browne is presiding over the greatest housing crisis of a generation and he needs to publish new housing targets for social and affordable housing. The fact that there is no appetite for action coming from his Department is not acceptable.
“9,089 social homes were built in 2025, despite a target of 10,000. Minister Browne confirmed that 5,946 new build social homes were delivered in Q4 of 2025. This is an abject failure.
“Under Housing for All there is a target of up to 10,000 new social homes, targets which were constantly missed.
“The targets have increased to an average of 12,000 a year by 2030 in Minister Browne’s new plan, but these are too low given the level of demand that currently exists in the market, along with the impact of Government’s new rental reforms.
“Just last weekend, we saw the horrific eviction notices issued to Wexford tenants as a direct result of this Government’s new rental rules. More and more people are coming forward sharing their story of eviction from the private rental market as a direct result of Government choices – and now they have nowhere to go.
“The failure to build adequate social housing is a cause of rising homelessness and the failure to set proper ambitious delivery targets is not good enough.”