Housing & Homelessness

Tracking supply delivery, market prices, and the households relying on emergency or state-supported accommodation.

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At a glance

Prices, homes being finished, and how many households still need emergency or state-supported housing.

Mean price-to-income

Calculated

7.21

Based on 2024

+2.1% vs prior period

Average property sale price divided by average annual earnings. Above 4.0 is higher than the Central Bank's display threshold.

Completions vs ESRI baseline

37,835/ 50,500

Completions as of 2026 Q2

ESRI baseline

Researchers' estimate of homes needed each year from population and household change.

Short by 12,665

Done 37,835 · Target 50,500

Housing for All

The government's published policy target for new homes each year.

Short by 2,165

Done 37,835 · Target 40,000

Homes finished in the last 12 months, shown against yearly need targets.

Waiting on Social Housing Support

Estimated

128,909

As of July 2026

Emergency Accommodation (PASS)17,527
Subsidised Renters (HAP)49,663
Social Housing Waitlist (SSHA)61,719

Households in emergency beds, on rent support, or waiting for social housing.

Headline completions figure uses the ESRI baseline (50,500 homes/year). Both targets above use the same last-12-months completions total.

Tier 1 — Supply pipeline

The construction pipeline. By tracking when foundations are poured (commencements) and the cost of materials, we can forecast how many homes will actually be finished 12 to 18 months from now.

Commencements vs completions

Green line: Commencements (Started) · Blue bars: Completions (Finished)

What to look for: The green line acts as an 18-month forecast. If the line drops, we can expect a drop in finished homes a year and a half later.

SCSI Spike is the 2022 spike in SCSI Construction Cost inflation.

Construction Cost Inflation (SCSI Tender Price)

Tracks the half yearly percentage increase in the cost of building materials and labor.

What Are We Actually Building?

The breakdown of finished homes by Single (One-off houses), Scheme (Estate), and Apartments.

SCSI Spike is the 2022 spike in SCSI Construction Cost inflation.

Tier 2 — Market pressures

Property prices and rents are fundamentally driven by the balance between housing supply and demographic demand., for example when housing supply fails to meet demographic demand, the pressure falls directly on prices and rents. This section tracks the financial squeeze on buyers and the rental market.

The Rent 'Mobility Penalty'

Comparing the average cost of signing a new lease versus renewing an existing one.

Top red line: New tenancy rents · Bottom dark line: Existing tenancy rents

What to look for: The red shaded gap represents the 'mobility penalty'—the massive premium renters are forced to pay if they want or need to move. A widening gap traps renters in their current homes, reducing labor mobility.

House Price Inflation (Year-on-Year)

The speed at which residential property prices are rising compared to the same month last year.

What to look for: As long as the line remains above 0%, properties are getting more expensive. The dashed line at the far right represents provisional data, as official sales take about 44 days to register via Stamp Duty.

Tier 3 — Systemic overflow

Three different pressures on the system — emergency beds, rent support, and street homelessness — each with its own data rhythm.

National emergency accommodation (PASS)

People in funded emergency accommodation during the monthly count week — not people sleeping rough. As of July 2026.

Households on rent support (HAP)

Active Housing Assistance Payment households from published Department / Oireachtas snapshots. Latest: December 2025.

What to look for: Points are as published — often quarterly or year-end — not a monthly series. No 2026 active-tenancy figure has been published yet.

Dublin rough sleeping (best available)

DRHE spring and winter week-long counts of unique people met sleeping rough in Dublin. Latest: November 2025.

No country-wide recurring rough-sleeper count is gathered, so Dublin is the best official series. The shaded band is a Census share estimate only: on census night, Dublin has historically been about 75–80% of enumerated rough sleepers (CSO with DRHE / Gardaí), so an implied State range is Dublin ÷ 0.80 to Dublin ÷ 0.75. That band is not an official observation. Counts shown use the post-2020 week-long method and should not be mixed with older single-night figures.

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Methodology & disclosures

Official CSO series (completions, commencements, RPPI, stock/mean price) are observed cube rows. Price-to-income is a calculated mean (HPM02 ÷ DEA05×52) — never a median. PPR medians, DHLGH PASS, Dublin-only DRHE rough sleepers, HAP, SSHA waitlist, RTB rents and SCSI tender prices are estimated or purpose-built extracts; they never overwrite observed facts.

Completions targets (ESRI baseline 50,500; Housing for All 40,000) are UI scenarios for inspecting the delivery gap — not stored as database facts. Stacked completions use NDQ06 dwelling types; hero progress uses All house types only.

DRHE rough sleeper counts are Dublin figures. Do not read them as a national homelessness total. PASS State totals sum regional adults and dependants from the monthly open-data CSV.

The PASS + HAP + SSHA "ongoing need" stack is an editorial composite for scale. Definitions differ and the sum is not an official statistic.

Definitions and sources: Methodology · PASS provenance

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