Sinn Féin Eoin Ó Broin suggested that mixed income in housing developments should be promoted through tenant purchase and intergenerational security of tenure. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collinstold Thursday’s Planning and Development Bill committee hearing that the use of mixed-tenure housing was based on a “prejudiced” idea that low-income families should not be “over-concentrated”.
“The substantial point here is that you shouldn’t be allowed to go below the 20 per cent social and affordable housing on the basis of a vague notion of undue segregation,” Mr Boyd Barrett told the committee. The term “undue segregation” is “often laced with prejudice” and based on the idea that you “inevitably produce problems if you have big council estates”, he said.
“The only category of people in our society who we restrict at over-concentration is lower-income households. We don’t do this with private housing.
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