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# The Gist: Episode 2 A New Chart
- URL: https://www.thegist.ie/bonus-gist-a-new-chart/
- Published: 2023-04-03T17:22:04.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-05T12:30:22.000Z
- Description: I had a fever, and the only cure was More Chart! This is a Bonus Gist.
- Author: Simon McGarr

Hello all!

The chart from the Weekend's Gist ([Where did the houses go?](https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-where-did-the-houses-go/)) prompted some questions about other numbers to show. 

I think some of the points were valid. Though I was working from the Goverment's own datasets, the spreadsheet for Local Authority New Builds starts to break out Part V new builds (ie, those built by developers but then given to the Local Authority) after 2016\. I've now added those in too.

I have also, for illustration, added in the figures for the numbers of new households being supported by HAP payments to private landlords each year since 2016\. I think it's an eyecatching multiple of the state's new housing output. 

![A chart showing New Builds by Local Authority Housing 1999-2022, Part V new builds and New HAP Households](https://storage.ghost.io/c/09/2e/092e59c2-d4b3-46c9-8790-ebfcb2a9bda5/content/images/2023/04/Screenshot-2023-04-03-at-18.08.44.png)

Source: [Government Report 1,](https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/?ref=thegist.ie#social-housing-delivery-progress-against-targets) [Government Report 2](https://assets.gov.ie/243730/a30cdcc2-2094-4c08-98e5-c74e6956a2ab.xlsx?ref=thegist.ie)

### Hapless Records

Just a point on the HAP numbers. The state's own statistics sources disagree when it comes to figures for new HAP households. One report (which I have used above as they are from the same set of stats as the Part V data) delivers one set of numbers. But the [HAP quarterly stats ](https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/?ref=thegist.ie#housing-assistance-payment)deliver similar but not identical figures. As Social Justice Ireland [have said](https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/policy-issues/more-1-4-hap-tenancies-not-sustainable-while-real-social-housing-need-33?ref=thegist.ie) "If Government is to address policy failures on housing, it must do so on the basis of real data".