The Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH), first established as the Housing Centre in 1982, has witnessed the housing association/approved housing body sector grow from a few thousand homes in the early 1980s to almost 55,000 owned and managed by the sector in 2022. ICSH was established by far sighted representatives of non-profit voluntary housing and co-operative associations to provide an additional public housing option for households in need of housing throughout Ireland.
Our 40-year publication tracks the evolution of the Irish Council for Social Housing and the expansion of our member approved housing bodies, decade-by-decade, from 1982-2022.
