Last week, I wrote about the housing need demand assessment: Dublin’s corset. The HNDA is the process by which national population targets get converted into local authority plans. The local plans control how much land gets zoned for housing, which feeds through to the number of homes permitted, which feeds through to the number of homes built. Ronan also referred to it this week in his analysis of diverging housing construction trends across the country. Last week, I focussed on the HNDA for simplicity’s sake. But the national population targets, as set out in the National Planning Framework (NPF), are…

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