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Almost 2 million euro for social housing in Galway
Galway Bay fm newsroom – More than 1.7 million euro is being allocated by Minister for Housing and Planning Jan O’ Sullivan for social housing in Galway.
Just over 9 hundred thousand euro is being provided to the City Council to purchase 5 homes.
The County Council will receive almost 870 thousand euro to buy 8 homes for social housing.
The purchases will be completed this year and will address the specific needs of families on waiting lists as well as mainstream housing.
Nationally, thirty two million euro will be made available by the government to buy more than 260 properties for social housing.
The Minister for Social Housing, Jan O’Sullivan, says while it’s not a significant number of homes – the government is doing the best it can.