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#Homelessness
# homelessness - Thursday 8 November, 2018
Homeless crisis will not begin to ease until at least 2021, committee told
A Trinity professor said the recategorisation of homeless figures has “undermined confidence in the data”.
# homelessness - Tuesday 6 November, 2018
'Rough sleeper' found dead on Dublin City Centre street
He was found on Cook Street at 8am this morning.
# homelessness - Thursday 25 October, 2018
The government is trying to reduce chronic homelessness ... Here's how Finland ended it
Finland provides a positive example of what can be done to end long-term homelessness.
# homelessness - Wednesday 24 October, 2018
The number of homeless children in Ireland has risen by 136 in the space of a month
There are now collectively 9,698 people living in homeless accommodation across Ireland.
# homelessness - Monday 22 October, 2018
Three arrested after housing activists occupy Cork City Hall
The protesters called for the homelessness crisis to be declared a national emergency.
# homelessness - Saturday 20 October, 2018
Dublin City Council plotting €200 million funding for 'below market rent' apartment blocks
The proposed initial site for the Cost Rental Residential Project would be in Ballymun.
# homelessness - Friday 19 October, 2018
370% increase in demand for homeless organisation's services since 2010
Novas supported 4,572 people in 2017, an increase of 29% from the previous year.
# homelessness - Monday 15 October, 2018
Rough sleeping banned in Hungary as new homelessness law comes into force
A constitutional amendment approved by the parliament in June banned “habitual residence in a public space”.
'A detrimental impact on children': 19 babies born into a homeless charity's services last year
Depaul Ireland launched its 2017 annual report today.
# homelessness - Sunday 14 October, 2018
'He chose to die at home. The hostel was his home': Lynn Ruane on hidden health problems in homelessness
The health rights of people in emergency accommodation are not a subject that comes up often enough, writes Lynn Ruane.
# homelessness - Tuesday 9 October, 2018
Strengthening rent caps and 'first-class emergency accommodation': What the Budget means for housing
Almost 10,000 people in Ireland are homeless, with many priced out of the rental market.
# homelessness - Monday 8 October, 2018
'Painstakingly slow, chronically underfunded': Why aren't these vacant home schemes delivering?
Just nine homes were tenanted in one of the schemes last year, after the department had said up to 800 could be delivered in that time.
# homelessness - Friday 5 October, 2018
'You feel like you have no life left': Teenager living in hotel speaks about daily struggle of being homeless
‘Amanda’, one of more than 9,500 homeless people in Ireland, gave a candid interview on RTÉ Radio 1.
# homelessness - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
'Fianna Fáil made mistakes during the boom, but not building enough homes wasn’t one of them'
Fianna Fáil’s Darragh O’Brien writes about why affordable housing is key to this year’s Budget and a priority for his party.
# homelessness - Sunday 30 September, 2018
CSO statisticians moving to housing department after confusion over homeless and housing figures
The CSO statisticians will be assisting the department with its housing data, but not homeless figures.
New Airbnb rules will return housing units back to long-term rentals
Rental caps and a new licensing system are due to be announced next week.
# homelessness - Saturday 29 September, 2018
'I started taking drugs when I was 12 ... it was just seen as a cool thing to do'
TheJournal.ie spent a morning this week at Merchant’s Quay Ireland, which provides assistance to homeless people and drug users in Dublin.
# homelessness - Thursday 27 September, 2018
Homeless figures remain below 10,000 ... but government says more categorisation issues identified
The Department of Housing recorded 9,527 people in emergency accommodation last month.
# homelessness - Wednesday 26 September, 2018
Former Apollo House site put on the market
Apollo House site goes on sale with permission for a new office-block in its place.
# homelessness - Tuesday 25 September, 2018
'I was literally rock bottom. I was seven years out on the streets ... there's no way I'm going back'
Dublin Simon Community launched its annual impact report earlier today.
Eoin Ó Broin: 'He is the Minister. The buck stops with him. He must change the policy... or go'
The Sinn Féin spokesperson defends his party’s motion of no confidence in the Housing Minister.
# homelessness - Saturday 22 September, 2018
House in Crumlin occupied as housing activists shut down part of O'Connell Street
“I don’t think it’s acceptable for people to break into properties and occupy them,” Minister of State Damien English said.
Housing activists hosting national day of action today ... here's how we got to this point
Take Back the City activists have occupied a number of properties in Dublin over the past two months.
More homeless families living in hotels, despite Government claim that hubs are 'best response' to crisis
More families are continuing to live in hotels a year after the government pledged to end the practice.
# homelessness - Wednesday 19 September, 2018
Call for better access to alcohol treatment services to help tackle rural homelessness
More than 1,200 people are homeless across rural Ireland.
# homelessness - Friday 14 September, 2018
Homeless and addiction charity says 'Ireland is facing a deepening social crisis'
Merchants Quay chief: “It’s an understatement at this point to say we have a homelessness crisis”
# homelessness - Tuesday 11 September, 2018
Murphy attacks Sinn Féin 'stunt' as no confidence motion submitted against Housing Minister
Sinn Féin has submitted motion of no confidence in Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, but it won’t have Fianna Fáil backing.
# homelessness - Sunday 9 September, 2018
15 months into the job, how has Eoghan Murphy performed as Minister for Housing?
Earlier this week, Sinn Féin said it will move to have Murphy removed from office when the Dáil resumes this month.
# homelessness - Saturday 8 September, 2018
Activists occupying vacant house in Dublin take over third property this evening
They occupied a property on Belvedere Court.
# homelessness - Friday 7 September, 2018
Waterford activists stage 24-hour occupation of vacant property in city
The activists say they were inspired by recent occupations in Dublin.
# homelessness - Thursday 6 September, 2018
'It could be a turning moment in the crisis': Major housing rally to take place outside Dáil in October
A range of trade unions, housing advocates and groups have today called for a “radical shift” in Ireland’s housing policies.
Varadkar understands why people might be 'sceptical' that Fine Gael can solve the homeless crisis
The Taoiseach says his party does not lack compassion when it comes to solving the crisis.
Acting classes ruled out at FG think-in, but party to talk gender pay gap and Budget
Last year, Varadkar was heavily criticised for comments he made to this website insisting that Ireland has “one of the lowest levels of homelessness” .
Mother and one-year-old child walk streets waiting to hear about accommodation for the night
One woman was left with nowhere to go earlier this week after she says she was told her child wasn’t registered as homeless.
# homelessness - Tuesday 4 September, 2018
Being homeless for more than six months can significantly damage children's health - study
Although the study is US-based, many factors of it still ring true for those children who are homeless in Ireland.
# homelessness - Thursday 30 August, 2018
Roddy Doyle has written a new film about the homeless crisis
Rosie is about a young family who are homeless and living in hotels.
# homelessness - Wednesday 29 August, 2018
The number of homeless families has increased to a new record
There are now 1,778 families in emergency accomodation.
# homelessness - Tuesday 28 August, 2018
Housing Minister says he expects to see an increase in the latest homeless figures
Minister Eoghan Murphy said if people are focused on his ‘posh boy image’ they are missing the point.
# homelessness - Monday 27 August, 2018
Bed bugs, used needles and rat droppings - life inside homeless accommodation
New documents detail the issues facing people living in homeless emergency accommodation.
# homelessness - Sunday 26 August, 2018
'Six houses vacant with 8,000 on the housing list is scandalous'
Station Grove was built in 2006.
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Poll: Have fears of contracting Covid-19 stopped you visiting shops, pubs and cinemas?
THE COUNTRY LOOKS unimaginably different compared to a few weeks ago. Empty streets have been replaced with busy crowds eager to return to shopping, while pubs and restaurants are now largely open again.
Cinemas and museums have re-opened their doors, bringing more than a touch of normality to many lives.
But that doesn’t mean the pandemic has gone away. As concerns about street drinking in Dublin on Saturday night show, fears about a second wave are becoming heightened, while the danger of contracting Covid-19 hasn’t evaporated.
These two realities – a re-opened country and the spread of the virus – are now co-existing somewhat uneasily, and will likely do so in the months to come.
So today we want to know: Have fears of contracting Covid-19 stopped you visiting shops, restaurants, cinemas or pubs now they’ve re-opened?
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