Funding boost for Blanchardstown housing units

A TOTAL of 44 new housing units will be made available for social tenants in Rossan Court, Blanchardstown, as part of the Government’s updated Capital Programme for Housing 2016 Tánaiste Joan Burton has confirmed.

Details of the €13 million investment were contained in Minister of Environment, Community & Local Government Alan Kelly’s social housing progress report for 2015 and capital plan for 2016.

The Tánaiste said she was looking forward to seeing the 44 units occupied shortly by families who have a housing need.

“I was delighted to open the first 16 units at Rossan Court back in November, and I am happy that Department of Environment funding for this project is secure, so the site can be completed and the houses made available to families,” she added.

“I understand the full 44 units are on track to be completed and occupied by March.”

The Tánaiste also welcomed news in the housing progress report that a total of 2,700 formerly boarded up local authority houses have been restored to use in 2015, of which 1,050 are in the Dublin City Council area.