Rebuilding Ireland – Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness was published on 19 July 2016 as the Government’s response to the biggest single challenge facing Ireland — the housing and homeless crisis.
Rebuilding Ireland, together with the Government’s Strategy for the Rental Sector (published on 13 December 2016), comprises 113 actions, across five key Pillar Areas, as follows:

 Address Homelessness

1. Accelerate Social Housing
2. Build More Homes
3. Improve the Rental Sector
4. Utilise Existing Housing

The multi-stranded, action-oriented Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan aims to reverse the chronic under-supply of new homes that is making new home purchase and rents increasingly unaffordable and is driving additional households into homelessness.  It is designed to address all tenure types - social, private and rental - and to tackle homelessness comprehensively, by setting ambitious targets to, inter alia:

-Double the annual level of new homes built to 25,000 by 2020;

-Deliver an additional 47,000 social housing units in the period to 2021;

-Make the best use of the existing housing stock; and 

-Lay the foundations for a more vibrant and responsive private rented sector.

Following its first full year of implementation I am delighted to attach IPAV's submission.