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Sharing expert opinions on how to the housing shortage can best be solved, and advice for first-time buyers, Galway's auctioneers and estate agents give insight and advice for the local housing market.

The Land Development Agency (LDA) and Galway City Council (GCC) are seeking the public's views on its plans for a 'mixed use development', which will deliver more than '200 homes' on the site of the Black Box Theatre and two car parks.

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Darragh O’Brien TD visited Galway Harbour on Monday to formally announce the transfer of a three-acre site, with the potential for over 250 homes, to the Land Development Agency (LDA).

The development of the Sandy Quarter project by the Land Development Agency could be transformative for the city, City Council Chief Executive Brendan McGrath said on Monday as a six-week consultation process got underway into the massive plan.

Local Minister of State with responsibility for Planning and Local Government, Deputy Peter Burke, together with the Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O’Brien and Minister of State, Deputy Malcolm Noonan, recently launched a new €50m Croí Cónaithe (Towns) Fund which will support bringing vacant and underused buildings in Westmeath’s towns and villages back into residential use.

“Would it be ambitious to try and deliver 20,000 public homes in a year? Yes, but we need that scale of ambition. We have to deliver affordable and social homes for purchase and rent, because this crisis will continue to get worse.”

Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson, Eoin Ó Broin TD, will visit Galway on Monday, February 7, for a series of engagements.

Galway city will need 4,433 houses by 2028, and of these 1,575 will need to be social housing and 903 will have to be affordable housing, if the city is to seriously tackle the growing local authority waiting list.

The Housing For All plan is either a “path to achieving the supply we need to cater for all our people”, or a “continuation of the failed policy of relying on the private market”.

People Before Profit will hold a socially distanced protest at Sandy Road this Saturday at 2pm, demanding that the public land there be used to construct public housing.