Budget 2018: State continues reliance on private sector for social housing
Analysis: Only 3,800 of new homes will be built by local authorities or housing bodies
Almost 100,000 households remain on social housing waiting lists. Photograph: Daragh Mac Sweeney/Provision
Budget 2018 is the fourth of the “post-austerity” budgets, the first budgets to see significant capital investment in housing since 2009.