Motion or amendment: Declaration of a Housing Emergency - Amendment 2
Motion or amendment by Mr Brian Kingston on .
- MLA
- Mr Brian Kingston
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 10 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 2
- Assembly identifier
- Document 413778
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Text
Declaration of a Housing Emergency - Amendment 2
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.’
134 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Assessment
Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not qualifying”.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.03 (qualifying needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not qualifying).
- None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
- Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.96).
- No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
- The overall probability was at or below the not-qualifying threshold.
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Jev’s structured answers
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.02 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.01 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.01 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.01 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.02 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.96 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.03 | At or below not-qualifying threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 1.00 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.00 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 1.00 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.00 |
| Parades, bonfires and commemorations | 0.00 |
| Irish language, Ulster-Scots and language policy | 0.00 |
| Sport (including the GAA), the arts and cultural bodies | 0.00 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:58 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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