Over 100 Vacant Homes In Kildare Returned To Active Use In 2022

Thursday, 9 February 2023 16:46

By Caoimhe Harney

€1.166m in funding was recouped by Kildare County Council in Voids Programme

Some 106 vacant homes have been returned to active use in Kildare in 2022.

Under the Voids Programme, €1.166m was recouped from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage through the Voids Programme in 2022.

The Voids Programme support local authorities in preparing vacant homes for re-letting.

Nationally in 2022, 2,307 vacant social homes were brought back into active use in 2022 under the Voids Programme.

This is just above the anticipated figure of 2,273 vacant social homes, indicating that the intensive work in 2020 and 2021 by local authorities in this area has reduced the number of vacant social homes.

Making more efficient use of existing housing stock is a key action in the Government’s Housing for All plan.

The Voids Programme builds on the ongoing work to tackle vacancy and dereliction and bring vacant properties into re-use for housing.

Minister Daragh O’Brien commented: “Apart from the obvious advantages of meeting demand for social housing, the return of these 106 vacant homes in Kildare has a positive impact on communities and avoids vacant homes becoming run down and derelict in some instances and the source of anti-social behaviour.

“Kildare County Council seized the opportunity to bring these homes back into active use in 2022 and this will make a real difference to the lives of 106 households.

“It’s important to note and welcome the fact that nationally the number of vacant social homes requiring pre-letting works was lower in 2022 than in 2021 or 2020.

“We are now progressively shifting to a position of planned maintenance of social housing stock to ensure minimal turnaround and re-let times for social housing stock," he said.

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