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Focus Ireland

This month
September 2025
housing for all
'Radical shift' needed in government’s delayed housing plan amid record homelessness, Focus says
9 Sep
2.9k
This year
2025
Housing Crisis
Bid to end homeless services for those who refuse multiple housing offers slammed as 'cruel'
Charities say the move won’t lead to a decrease in those who become homeless.
Stephen McDermott
15 Jul
31.1k
84
Focus Ireland
Majority of State spending on homelessness directed toward emergency accommodation
25 Mar
10.3k
34
Weather Warnings
'A life and death situation': How homeless services are helping people survive the cold
9 Jan
6.8k
Last year
2024
Homelessness
Focus Ireland calls for more social housing as demand for services rose by 12.5% in 2023
3 Sep 2024
6.4k
60
Emergency Accommodation
Increase of 579% in the numbers of adults in emergency accommodation for more than six months since 2014
14 Jun 2024
6.3k
29
Homeless
Homelessness: Children in emergency accommodation tops 4,000 for first time
Official figures show 9,409 adults and 4,105 children were in emergency accommodation in November.
The figures are an increase of 335 compared with October 2023.
Over 190 more children are now living in emergency accommodation.
The numbers have been labelled a stark beginning to the new year.
Updated 5 Jan 2024
19.7k
147
All time
Housing Crisis
Focus Ireland recorded 30% increase in service users last year as homelessness rose
27 Sep 2023
5.0k
33
Housing Crisis
Garda stations have no facilities to house families left homeless after eviction ban ends
11 Mar 2023
21.9k
33
drhe
Dublin Regional Homeless Executive increases emergency bed capacity amid cold spell
9 Mar 2023
3.8k
Housing Crisis
Homelessness record broken again as 11,542 people in emergency accommodation in November
6 Jan 2023
12.0k
48
Homelessness
Parents living in emergency accommodation 'anxious about giving children a decent Christmas'
24 Dec 2022
11.1k
Cold Snap
Outreach groups 'doing all they can' so rough sleepers take up emergency accommodation
14 Dec 2022
9.4k
11
Homelessness
Focus Ireland launch 2021 report amid rapidly worsening homelessness crisis
11 Oct 2022
5.1k
5
Homelessness
'I just remember thinking: 'Oh my God, this is our life'.'
30 Nov 2021
18.9k
Darragh O'Brien
Jump in number of homeless is 'serious concern', says Housing Minister
29 Oct 2021
16.3k
44
Focus Ireland
Opposition says Budget does 'nothing' for renters as minister hints at 'more permanent caps'
Updated 12 Oct 2021
13.8k
17
Focus Ireland
Charity helps record number of households to avoid homelessness
5 Oct 2021
8.3k
4
Homelessness
Homeless charities hit back after Keegan says 'whole industry' sustaining people sleeping in tents
17 Aug 2021
24.9k
35
Homeless
Slight decrease of 75 in February homelessness figures
26 Mar 2021
6.7k
11
A Good Cause
Bohemians team up with Fontaines DC to tackle homelessness with new away shirt
Updated 13 Mar 2021
28.7k
19
Homelessness
Progress made in reducing homeless figures at start of pandemic now being eroded, charities say
26 Feb 2021
8.2k
13
Homelessness
Slight drop in latest homeless figures, charities raise 'grave concerns' over recent deaths
30 Oct 2020
16.5k
9
Homelessness
'I got a call from Focus Ireland inviting me to view an apartment ... it felt like heaven'
29 Sep 2020
23.3k
14
Homeless figures
Homeless charities demand action in the Budget as latest figures show 8,700 in emergency accommodation
25 Sep 2020
11.2k
14
WRC
Focus Ireland ordered to pay €22,000 to 68-year-old 'humiliated' mediator for unlawfully retiring him
2 Jun 2020
41.4k
28
big rebel sleep out
Cork people asked to sleep in their gardens this weekend to raise funds for the homeless
21 Apr 2020
13.3k
11
Homelessness
'There are no longer physical visits': New challenges for homeless families during coronavirus outbreak
26 Mar 2020
15.2k
8
Homelessness
'We were in crisis before coronavirus': Housing charities set aside rooms for homeless people who need to self-isolate
11 Mar 2020
14.1k
28
ge2020
Opinion: The two homeless tragedies this week mean the Irish electorate is alert to this issue
Mike Allen
17 Jan 2020
12.5k
37
Homelessness
'Babies are being born homeless': Charity demands action from government on child homelessness
17 Nov 2019
18.8k
97
Homelessness
'This must end': Homelessness figures reach over 10,000 for eighth consecutive month
31 Oct 2019
14.1k
72
Focus Ireland
'They told me I was getting a home ... it was real surreal'
5 Sep 2019
16.1k
26
Homelessness
Landlords selling a private rental property one of the main drivers of family homelessness in Dublin
13 Jun 2019
28.1k
158
Opinion
Opinion: 10% of homeless families have been made homeless for a second time
Wayne Stanley
8 May 2019
11.9k
24
Social Housing
Relocation costs, unsuitable houses...'no bee-keeping prospects': The reasons people give for refusing social homes
7 May 2019
57.9k
59
Homelessness
'We have very different values': Focus official hits back at Skehan's comments that homelessness is 'normal'
15 Jan 2019
17.4k
46
Homelessness
Former top housing official claims homelessness in Ireland is 'normal'
Updated 8 Jan 2019
64.1k
177
baby it's cold outside
"We live in a time where a song's lyrics upsets us more than our own people living on the streets"
14 Dec 2018
3.7k
3
Homelessness
'My dad was on heroin... I was put into care when I was 8': The experience of young homeless families
13 Dec 2018
22.0k
37
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