Nine social housing projects in Clare had workers on site at the end of the first quarter of this year.
The news comes ahead of the publication of the long-awaited ‘Housing For All’ strategy which is to be published today.
The works, detailed in the Department of Housing’s latest status report, amount to 177 houses across the county.
Of the nine projects that have builders on the ground, the largest is a 51 unit project in Shannon East that began construction in late 2019.
A 40-unit project on Ennis’ Kilrush road, visited by Housing Minister Darragh O Brien on a recent trip to this county, as well as 27 dwellings in Miltown Malbay and 25 houses in Doonaun, Tulla also have construction workers on site.
Other projects well underway include two separate works in Newmarket-On-Fergus, as well as further builds in Ennis, Doonbeg and Killaloe.
Of the 47 projects contained in the Department’s report, 29 are now considered completed.
Of the remaining nine, two are fully approved, two are waiting to go to tender, two are in the design stage and two are in the early capital appraisal phase.
One remaining project, a 22 unit set of works destined for Westbury, has been waiting for full approval since the second quarter of 2016.
All eyes here and elsewhere are now on the publication of the Housing For All plan today, which promises to provide social housing on ‘a scale never seen before’.
