TWO PERCENT OF LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING IN CITY EMPTY

Date Published: 28-Dec-2011

Over two percent of local authority dwellings in Galway city are vacant.

Figures compiled by the Irish Times reveal there are 71 empty properties out of a stock of almost 2 thousand 800.

Dublin city council has the highest number of vacant dwellings at 592 out of around 14 and a half thousand units- a 2 point 4 percent vacancy rate.

Overall, over 1 thousand 800 local authority housing is vacant in the main urban centres of the state as the number of people on the housing waiting list reaches 100 thousand.