Reviving vacant properties: the housing solution staring us in the face
Unlike new developments, these buildings require no major new infrastructure or associated years-long planning journey
Homeless Crisis
Demand for drug treatment services has ‘exploded’, support group says
Women in particular are seeking support in bigger numbers and ‘crack cocaine is causing untold harm’, according to Merchants Quay Ireland
Supporting the homeless: some people need more help than a tenancy alone can provide
Leaving them without good services does not remove the cost – it shifts it to A&Es and hospital wards instead
Department says homeless figures not being published due to industrial action
Failure to publish latest figures is ‘further proof that the housing crisis is not a priority for this Government’, Social Democrats TD says
How Catholic bishops could help tackle homelessness
At least some of the nearly 18,000 people without homes might benefit
State ‘facing shortfall of 500 beds’ in facilities for most vulnerable homeless people
‘Significant demand’ exists for more long- and short-term accommodation including healthcare help
What does a ‘good death’ look like when you don’t have a home?
‘No one life is more important than the next ... each one is precious, and no one should suffer’
‘Jumping the queue’: Several people allegedly trespassing at Peter McVerry Trust flats
Homelessness organisation says occupation preventing it from using apartments to shelter those ‘genuinely in need’
Homelessness often a ‘domino effect of compounding circumstances’
New DePaul research highlights five common pathways into homelessness
Children Ombudsman ‘deeply concerned’ about changes to homeless accommodation eligibility
Minister for Housing was urged to ‘reconsider to prevent any discrimination against children and families in need’
‘Such a lovely person’: Tributes paid to homeless woman who died in tent in Dublin
Locals remember Antonia Edgeworth from old library in Dún Laoghaire and seeing her on the city’s streets
‘An intelligent, nonconformist man’: Galway’s homeless millionaire
‘An intelligent, interesting, nonconformist man’ – we speak to the people he interacted with in the city
Dublin 1’s disproportionate concentration of social services
Responsibility should be shared more evenly across the city
Housing crisis perpetuating child poverty crisis
Cross-departmental ownership, action and attention needed
‘I feel broken’: Ukrainians in Ireland face an uncertain future
Contracts with hotels housing more than 4,000 Ukrainians end next month, while private host payments end in March
A very touching thing happened on Capel Street last Thursday evening
When we talk about those on the ‘margins’, we are talking about real people
Tenant who lived in car for months with partner and child due to rent hike awarded damages
Kildare landlord David Massey also ordered to repay ‘goodwill payment’ he had allegedly sought from family to secure rental home
Commissioning reports to delay taking action
If we made paper bricks from all the ignored reports commissioned over the years, we could probably build enough homes to end homelessness
Government must address housing issue as an absolute priority
Nothing significant has been done while corporate landlords enriched
We don’t need another report on child poverty – we need action
Having multiple ways of saying the same thing does not appear to be effective in pushing the Government to do enough
‘What’s happening is not working’: Dublin needs homelessness ‘tsar’, says charity
Latest data shows Dublin’s emergency accommodation population reached 12,429 last month
Homeless numbers rise 9% in a year as latest figures show fresh increase
More than 5,800 children in 2,800 families among those in emergency accommodation
Finland cut homelessness by 80 per cent with housing-first policy, Irish conference hears
Ireland, with a similar population, has thousands more homeless people
A ‘gentle giant’: Man who died in Galway homeless hostel leaves estate of almost €1.3m
Victor Spaggiari, a well-known local personality, died in city’s Fairgreen Hostel in 2024
Archbishop of Dublin criticises ‘exploitative’ landlords and denial of right to housing in Ireland
Dermot Farrell says ‘young people have all but given up the hope of having a home of their own’
‘It’s like going for a coffee with a friend’: Finding mental health solace in a cafe
Solace cafes aim to provide an alternative to traditional psychiatric emergency care
Pressure on frontline services
Without urgent Government action, rising demand will continue to place frontline services under increasing strain
Government priorities
It seems the most serious issues facing the Republic are the least urgent for this Government
‘The trauma, for kids especially, is huge’: A family’s struggle to get out of homelessness
David Carroll says rising rents, cost-of-living issues and mental health difficulties are putting people under increasing pressure
Affordable housing is a human right, not a privilege
We are at the point of societal breakdown as this crisis deepens
Bulldozers sweep across Electric Picnic site as mammoth clean-up operation begins
Local homelessness charity has sorted through the rubbish in search of serviceable sleeping bags that can be washed and reused
Homelessness overtakes addiction as main issue for Ana Liffey service users
‘The sense that we are all only one pay cheque away from the risk of homelessness really resonates,’ charity’s chief executive says
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