In the north inner-city, tenants of 15 years evicted so council can buy their home
Dublin City Council is buying 40 homes in the Northbank apartments. It is not clear how many tenants have been evicted for the deal to proceed.
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What More Than 100 Homeless People Said When Surveyed About the Freephone and Hostels
A survey funded by our readers and conducted by Amárach Research asked about issues including how often people call the freephone and can’t get a bed for the night, and the conditions in the hostels when they do get in.
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Editor’s Note: This survey was funded by our readers. Many thanks to those who contributed, and those who shared their expertise to determine subjects to ask about. We know this isn’t peer-reviewed social-science research, but hope it is a small step in gathering a wider range of feedback from those with experience of these homeless services. You can read the full final report compiled by Amárach Research here.
Further reading:
- Why do so many homeless hostels only open at night? by Laoise Neylon
- On streets, rough sleepers dream for months of stable emergency beds by Laoise Neylon
- Homeless people often complain about the freephone but not to those who run it by Laoise Neylon
- Why is there a night-time-only hostel for children? by Lois Kapila
- On the brutality of life in one of Dublin’s homeless hostels by Christine O’Donnell
- Among homeless, continued complaints about hostel standards by Laoise Neylon
This presentation of this article was inspired by How the Other Half Eats, by Ariel Aberg-Riger (CityLab)
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