There are now 13,866 men, women and children recorded as homeless in Ireland as of March – an increase of 25 on the previous month.
According to homeless charity the Simon Communities, 1,981 were families (an increase of 21%, or 342 in the year) and 4,147 were children (an increase of 19%, 675 in the year).
Commenting on the data, Simon Communities Executive Director Wayne Stanley said the figures were “shocking”.
“The figures released by the Department today reveals a 16% year-on-year increase of men, women and children living in homelessness,” he said.
“While we welcome the fact that some regions have shown a small decline this month, we must reflect on the fact that it is almost 10 years since these figures began to be published and homelessness was declared a crisis.
“At the end of 2014, the Department reported 3,738 people in homelessness. Today’s figures show an increase of 10,128 men, women and children in homelessness since then. That is a shocking figure.”
Stanley went on to say that there had been “some” success over the past decade when it came to homelessness.
“In particular, during the period of COVID, we saw a significant decline in family homelessness,” he said.
“This success in reducing the number of people in emergency accommodation didn’t happen by accident. It was driven by preventing families and individuals from having to enter homelessness, while capturing increased housing supply, to ensure individuals and families could move out of homelessness.
“In a recent interview, the Minister for Housing indicated that he is working to increase allocations to those in homelessness. We have once again called on the Minister to implement the provisions of the Simon Homeless Prevention Bill to help slow the number of individuals and families entering homelessness.
“These initiatives, if effectively implemented, could finally get us ahead of this crisis and we may eventually witness a decline in these alarming numbers.”
Reacting to the figures, Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien said: “Those without a home remain the priority for this Government.
“This year in 2024 we are making €242 million available for the delivery of homeless services – a 12.6% increase on the previous year.
“While we continue to fund much needed services, we are also ramping up the supply of social homes and ensuring the Tenant in Situ Scheme is continued.
“This means that we can provide safe, secure social homes for life.”
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Government at war with its own people. They are parasites and traitors. Vote them out now. They have forfeited the right to govern us.
While the illegals make videos that they are not happy with their free housing https://www.bitchute.com/video/bILAaxW6ZpcY/
If you plan on voting for the the existing parties, I strongly suggest you seek immediate medical attention in your nearest psych ward.
I’m sick to to the back teeth of reading stories about people coming into this country and being handed everything on a plate only for then to turn around and do nothing but cry, moan and winge about how nothing is good enough for them. If everything is so good and wonderful in whatever country they came from then why are they here. My response to these people is simply, if nothing in this country is good enough for you and if you haven’t flushed your passport down the toilet on the plane when you arrived in this country, then F##k off back to where ever you came from.
I hear you brother and don’t worry, the freeloaders will have exactly what they deserve soon enough. The parasites in the dail are all very quiet ATM,
The fecking cheek of them!! Complaining about a massive house that they get FOR FREE!! Go home if you don’t like it!
Era sure Albert, dont yunno thats racist and far right now…lol. You are only allowed discriminate against your own now.
How about a proper independent analysis of the homeless numbers instead of the numbers stated by self serving NGOs, it’s never in their interest for these numbers to fall . 500 so called charities involved in homeless
How are you going to get a proper independent analysis? There are different forms of homelessness.
For example: a person renting an apartment who, because of Government policy to re-inflate property prices after the bubble burst in 2008, is unable to buy a place of their own is evicted and replaced with multiple Brazilians overcrowded into said apartment by the landlord.
This person then having extreme difficulty in finding another apartment or room to rent 1) burns through their savings in a hotel/B&B to avoid sleeping on the street; 2) emigrates 3) moves back into their parents home 4) ends up on the street/in emergency accommodation 5) living in their car/couching-surfing
There are many in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s who are in this predicament. There are now multiple generations living in houses that are designed for a small family.
I’m not particularly fond of NGO’s and the bloated charity sector but if you are unaware of the crisis we are in I assume you are nice and comfortable and unaffected by the current situation that has been getting increasingly worse for at least the last 5 years.
So, back to my question. How are you going to get a proper analysis when you take the above scenarios into account?
Just a bit of warning too lads, watch out for shit like this too where the communists spin off as independents, I expect alot of that shit too. https://www.thejournal.ie/saoirse-mchugh-to-contest-european-election-as-independent-candidate-6365649-Apr2024/
Good share, really important to grill the people seeking your vote, if they’re not calling to your door then find out where they’re holding town halls.
These are the most important elections of our lifetime so far.
Definitely, a lot of the parasite will be jumping ship being an election year and probably go back to the fffgg mother ship after. It’s a them or us election and if we don’t win, it will be 1922 all over again.
maybe we should all REFUSE to vote in the european elections , from my own point of view the MPEs do very little apart from swan about between countries talking shite ! do we REALLY NEED THEM ? just another bunch of yabbering arseholes who DO NOT reflect the wishes or needs of the citizens of this country and spend most of their time lobbying for NGOs and big business interests .
ONLY THERE TO FURTHER THEIR OWN CAREERS AND FILL THEIR ALREADY BLOTTED BANK BALANCES !
THESE ARE THE SELF SAME CRETINS THAT ARE TRYING TO PUSH THROUGH THE EUs LATEST ATTEMPT AT FORCING MASS IMMIGRATION ON THE CITIZENS OF EUROPE !
if we dont vote for them to go to europe then maybe it will serve as notice to the EU that we THE CITIZENS OF IRELAND do not want to be a part of their ENFORCED immigration policy .