Motion or amendment: Declaration of a Housing Emergency - Amendment 1

Motion or amendment by Mr Andrew McMurray on 9 October 2024.

MLA: Mr Andrew McMurray
Party at the time: Alliance Party
Date: 9 October 2024
Type: Motion or amendment
Business: Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Declaration of a Housing Emergency”
Heading: Declaration of a Housing Emergency - Amendment 1
Assembly identifier: Document 413777

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Declaration of a Housing Emergency - Amendment 1
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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