Just 163 repossessed homes made available for social housing
Banks had offered 2,000 such properties to the Housing Agency under a new scheme
More than 2,000 repossessed homes have been offered by banks to the Housing Agency for social housing under a new scheme, but just 163 have been made available to tenants, new figures show.
Data provided to The Irish Times by the Housing Agency reveal that, since the end of 2016, it has been offered 2,096 properties to buy with a new €70 million “revolving fund”.
Of these dwellings, just 45 are now owned...
