Vacancy Watch: a big site near Fatima Luas stop
Even as the government casts around for new land to zone for homes, it is unclear when this plot will be built out.
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A staff member in a hostel hit a homeless woman and called her a “piece of junk”
“I’m telling you in the past five years the staff in these hostels have totally changed,” says Mairead, the woman who was assaulted.
Groups giving out food to people on the streets would need to get permits under council plan
Meanwhile, those groups, like the Muslim Sisters of Éire, which runs a food table at the GPO, are “being inundated with demand”.
Scandal, vacancy, occupation – and now maybe regeneration – at a Phibsboro social-housing complex
A council committee on 11 July backed transferring the James McSweeney House site to the charity Cabhrú so it can knock and rebuild it – with more homes.
Outreach counted 180 people sleeping on the streets of Dublin in November. But the official report said there were only 91.
“Given that it is called a rough sleeper count most people would be surprised to find out that’s not what it is,” says Louisa Santoro, CEO of the Mendicity Institution.
RTB has proposed giving Gardaí powers to arrest anyone illegally evicting a tenant
Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien had asked the RTB to look at how the state could improve its response to illegal evictions.
After High Court ruling that state isn’t meeting its obligations towards asylum seekers, what happens next?
For hundreds still left without shelter and exposed to exploitation, hostility and violence, how much of a difference will that ruling make?
Dublin councils are ramping up homeless accommodation
But they’re also pushing back against those begging to access it, asking if there’s anywhere else they can go instead.
Demonized and unable to get accommodation, men seeking asylum grapple with homelessness
Several have been sleeping down a laneway near the International Protection Office on Mount Street Lower.
Homeless hostels still need independent inspections, charities have been saying
Charities have also been raising the need for drug-free beds, shows correspondence released under the Freedom of Information Act.
When the Eviction Ban Ends, the Newly Homeless Will Have to Join the Queue for Emergency Accommodation
There are waiting lists, and an increase in the number of people seeking legal assistance because they were refused emergency accommodation, say charities.
A Homeless Asylum Seeker Set Up a Tent Outside the International Protection Office. Staff Called Gardaí.
In an unfamiliar city, it seemed like a place Aysar Hamad could find protection. The Department of Justice says he was blocking the entrance.
The Council Should Move Long-Term Homeless People Up the List to Get Social Homes Quicker, Some Say
“They have got to use the social housing that is currently available to get people out of homelessness, otherwise we are banjaxed.”