AT-A-GLANCE: Northern Ireland parties' main housing policies

DUP

Build 8,000 social and affordable housing units by 2020

Create £1bn Northern Ireland Investment Fund to help finance projects such as social housing

Transform the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to a strategic housing body and transfer its stock

Give NIHE more powers to tackle empty homes

Sinn Fein

Build a minimum of 10,000 new social and affordable homes over the next five years

Develop and implement an anti-poverty strategy, based on objective need

Provide £500 million to help mitigate Tory welfare cuts

SDLP

Build 3,000 social homes every year

Impose a statutory duty on social landlords to promote and develop ‘shared housing’ (mixed community social housing schemes)

Develop a new Green Investment Deal to retrofit housing

Introduce a new homelessness strategy, aimed at helping those who are homeless and protecting those at risk of homelessness

UUP

Build 10,000 new social and affordable homes by 2021

Support the transfer of properties from the NIHE to housing associations

Place duty to prevent homelessness on statutory services such as the NHS and prisons

Allow the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to borrow against its assets to access private finance