Commitment
Build 70,000 social homes over a five-year term
What this means
- The Social Democrats promised to build 70,000 social homes over a five-year government term, with local authorities doing the building directly.[source]
- This is a housing policy commitment made in the party's general election manifesto, first stated on 19 November 2024.[source]
- The commitment has the status of a promise only. No delivery date has been set and the party was not in government when it was made.[source]
- Holding this commitment to account matters because social housing affects people on low incomes who rely on the state for affordable, secure homes.[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
Summary derived from the records cited above. Read the methodology to understand how this is generated.
Relationship map
One-hop relationships derived from the entity records. Click any node to follow the link.
Status
Promised
The Social Democrats committed to building 70,000 social homes over a five-year term through directly building social homes by local authorities.
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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