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| 09/10/2024 | Leave 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.’
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| 10/10/2024 | Leave out all after ‘affordable housing;’ and insert:
‘calls on the Minister for Communities to immediately declare a housing emergency, bring forward the draft Housing Supply Strategy to the Executive as soon as possible, seek the necessary funding and resources to address these interconnected issues, and to work with other relevant Ministers, local councils and housing bodies to expedite solutions that will increase the availability of social, affordable and sustainable housing; and further calls on the Minister to work with the Minister of Finance to secure a commitment that future budgetary allocations, including in respect of Barnett Consequential funding, will reflect the need to provide more social, affordable and sustainable housing in Northern Ireland as an immediate and stand-alone priority of the draft Programme for Government.’
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