AQW 39955/22-27

Mr John Blair
Alliance Party
South Antrim

Tabled Date: 06/02/2026
Answered On Date: 25/02/2026
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the number of new social homes commenced and completed in the South Antrim constituency, in each of the last three years; and (ii) whether he intends to increase targets, in light of the current homelessness figures from the Simon Community.

Answer:

The number of new social homes commenced and completed in the South Antrim constituency in the last three years are as follows:

Year	Social Homes Commenced	Social Homes Completed
2022/23	108	93
2023/24	4	30
2024/25	33	70

The Housing Executive is committed to ensuring that housing need is targeted equitably throughout Northern Ireland and has developed Strategic Guidelines to distribute the new build social housing requirement against the available annual budget at a Council level over the three years of the Social Housing Development Programme (SHDP).

I am doing everything I can to stretch my budget to deliver as many new social homes as possible. It is imperative that the Executive also commits to doing everything it can to ensure that sufficient budget is allocated to the SHDP as early as possible, to give us the best chance of achieving our Programme for Government target.