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This Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) has launched a new awareness campaign exposing the barriers people with disabilities face trying to find wheelchair accessible housing in Westmeath, the Midlands region and beyond.

One year on from its introduction, local Minister of State for Planning and Local Government at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Peter Burke, has marked the first 12 months of the Government’s ambitious 'Housing for All' plan, citing the progress made in delivering housing for Westmeath.

Galway City Council has committed to delivering more than 2,400 social and affordable homes in the next five years in line with a target set by the Government under its national Housing For All policy.

The most recently released daft.ie report notes that property prices within County Westmeath in the final three months of 2021 were 13 percent higher than a year previously, compared to a rise of six percent seen a year ago - the average price of a home is now €244,000, 107 percent above its lowest point.

House prices in Galway city rose by a slight amount in the past year, while house prices in the county areas jumped by a massive 16 per cent, the latest Daft.ie Sales Report has revealed.

The Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH) has welcomed the recent publication of the Government’s Housing for All national housing plan.

Homelessness and housing charity Galway Simon Community has welcomed the Government’s new Housing for All Strategy but stressed that it is crucial for the government to achieve the objectives contained within the plan to ensure the aim of eradicating homelessness can be realised.

National housing charity Threshold has stated that the findings of Daft.ie’s Q4 2020 rental report signal “an exodus of working renters from Dublin,” but cautioned that increasing rents and a significant lack of supply outside of Dublin could cause issues for those hoping to leave the capital as businesses continue to work remotely.

National housing charity Threshold has warned people seeking rented properties to be careful of fraudsters following an increase in the occurrence of rent-related scams in the west of Ireland in recent weeks. The charity has seen a particular concentration of these incidents in Galway.

Budget 2020 has "failed to seriously address" the State's housing and accommodation crisis, and it is now time that An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar declare a National Housing Crisis Emergency.