Motion Amendment

Motion TitleDeclaration of a Housing Emergency - Amendment 1

Motion Amendment TextLeave out all after ‘local communities’ and insert: ‘, the failure to tackle divided housing provision, planning delays and the lack of an effective Empty Homes Strategy; expresses regret at the failure to deliver previous targets aimed at increasing the supply of safe, sustainable and affordable housing; calls on the Minister for Communities to immediately declare a housing emergency, to allocate the necessary funding and resources to address these interconnected issues, and to work with other relevant Ministers, local councils and housing bodies across Northern Ireland; and further calls on the Minister to prioritise any additional Barnett Consequential funding his department receives, emanating from additional house-building in England and Wales, for the same purposes in Northern Ireland with the aim of building at least 50,000 additional homes in shared, mixed tenure developments by 2032 at the latest.’

Amendment Number1

Motion Amendment CategoryPrivate Members' Motion

Date Tabled to Business Office09/10/2024