Calls for urgency in affordable housing delivery in Tipperary

Local Sinn Féin activist Dan Harty has said the latest Daft.ie House Price Report 2024 Q2 makes for concerning reading and a lived reality for anyone in Tipperary looking to buy a home.

Tipperary has recorded the highest year-on-year house price increase in the state, recording a 15% increase in average house prices.

The average house price in the county now stands at €265,645.

“The current house price inflation we see in Tipperary is driven by a critical undersupply in the second-hand home market.

“We are now well over a decade into the current housing crisis, and the situation remains very challenging for young couples trying to navigate the market, which is very unfair.

“Many of our young people or ‘Generation Rent’ are effectively locked out of home ownership and locked into paying cruelly high rents, while at the same time trying to save for a deposit for a house.

“We need a timely and effective response in terms of affordable housing delivery.

“I would like to welcome that Tipperary County Council, after over a decade of neglecting this issue, has started to make moves to address this situation.

“The recent announcement of an affordablehousing scheme in Nenagh is very welcome and needs to be urgently extended to other Key Towns such as Thurles.

“This crisis needs to be treated as such.

“When the market fails, the state must intervene to provide realistic housing options for our hard-working and very deserving young families, and this starts with our local authorities,” said Mr Harty.