Commitment
Build 50,000 affordable purchase homes
What this means
- The Social Democrats promised to build 50,000 affordable homes for purchase over a five-year government term.[source]
- These homes would be built on a not-for-profit basis, with the aim of keeping sale prices as low as possible for buyers.[source]
- This is a housing policy commitment made by the Social Democrats in their November 2024 general election manifesto.[source]
- The commitment remains a promise only and has no confirmed delivery date, so voters can use it to hold the party to account.[source]
Direct impact (1)
- owned by partySocial DemocratsParty
Indirect impact (10)
Two-hop relationships traced through the entity above. Useful for spotting downstream knock-on effects.
- owned by party → party member2-hop via social-democratsAidan FarrellyOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via social-democratsCian O'CallaghanOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via social-democratsEoin HayesOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via social-democratsGary GannonOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via social-democratsHolly CairnsOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via social-democratsJen CumminsOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via social-democratsJennifer WhitmoreOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via social-democratsLiam QuaideOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via social-democratsPádraig RiceOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via social-democratsRory HearneOfficeholder
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One-hop relationships derived from the entity records. Click any node to follow the link.
Status
Promised
The Social Democrats committed to building 50,000 affordable purchase homes over a five-year term on a not-for-profit basis to achieve the lowest possible price.
Attribution & links
- Origin
- Manifesto
- Policy area
- Housing
- Owning party
- Social Democrats
- Responsible body
- —
- Responsible officeholder
- —
- Linked mandate
- —
- First stated
- 2024-11-19
- Last reviewed
- 2026-05-21
Evidence & sources
Every status claim above is backed by a primary source — follow a link to the source-of-truth document.
Evidence
- Social Democrats General Election Manifesto 2024 - For the FutureSocial Democrats·Retrieved 2026-05-21high
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