DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL OFFICIALLY OPENS HOMELESS ACCOMMODATION SERVICE FOR 100...
(Source: Dublin City Council) Core service of the Annual Cold Weather Initiative 2015/2016 for persons who are/or at risk of rough sleeping Dublin City Council officially opened Brú Aimsir, today,...
View ArticleNI firm with deal for modular homes subject to fire safety audit
Work undertaken by a Northern Ireland construction company, which has been awarded the contract to provide modular housing for homeless families in Dublin, is the subject of a fire safety audit....
View ArticleSimon warns Cork homeless crisis continues to worsen
The homelessness crisis in Cork is worsening, with more people and more ending up on the streets and in emergency shelters, according to Cork Simon. In its annual report for 2014, the housing charity...
View ArticleCoffee project based on Big Issue model gets London launch
Change Please will train baristas, pay living wage and underwrite tenancies for workers who would otherwise struggle to rent a property...
View ArticleSen. Brown Outlines New Legislation to Improve Programs for Homeless Veterans...
(Source: Sherrod Brown) Monday, November 23, 2015 WARREN, OH – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and a member of the...
View ArticleMake Change Count – new campaign launched to support people sleeping rough in...
(Source: Crawley Borough Council) Location: Home |News and Events|Press Releases Crawley Borough Council and partners will be launching a campaign to encourage people to give responsibly to support...
View ArticleAdditional funding keeps shelter open (Government of British Columbia)
(Source: Government of British Columbia) SECHELT - The B.C. government is providing $40,000 to allow the emergency weather response shelter at St. Hilda's Anglican Church in Sechelt to remain open...
View ArticleProposals to ban homeless people sleeping in Newport city centre dropped
South Wales city would have been first in UK to ban rough sleeping but opposition from charities sees council scrap prospective measures...
View ArticleYour Vote is you Voice – Check the Register (Dublin City Council)
(Source: Dublin City Council) The Register of Electors comes into force on 15th February each year and is used at each election and referendum held in the succeeding 12 months. In order to be able to...
View ArticleFrontline service to combat rough sleeping (Newark and Sherwood District...
(Source: Newark and Sherwood District Council) Frontline service to combat rough sleeping A new frontline service is helping to combat rough sleeping in Newark and Sherwood but needs the public to...
View ArticleHelping the Homeless this Winter (Reading Borough Council)
(Source: Reading Borough Council) THE COUNCIL will be working with voluntary and community sector partners once again this year to help homeless people during the worst of the winter weather. As in...
View ArticleLouise O'Reilly addresses Dublin homeless crisis as numbers double (Sinn Féin)
(Source: Sinn Féin) 20 August, 2015 Sinn Féin Dublin Fingal Dáil candidate, Louise O'Reilly, was among many highlighting Dublin's homeless crisis outside the GPO yesterday, August 19th. The Sinn Féin...
View ArticleCouncil hears Dublin now has surplus of emergency beds
The recent Homeless Action Plan has reduced the number of rough sleepers and led to a surplus of emergency beds according to Dublin City Council. This evening's monthly council meeting heard there are...
View ArticleModular houses offered as solution to homeless crisis
Dublin City councillors will on Tuesday view factory-built houses which could be used to accommodate hundreds of homeless families currently living in hotels. The mayors of the four Dublin local...
View ArticleLaunch of All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO) Website and Dublin City...
(Source: Dublin City Council) Maynooth University in partnership with Dublin City Council, today, Monday September 8th 2014, launched AIRO, a free-to-use, online monitoring tool that maps housing data...
View ArticleHomelessness crisis highlighted by Dublin Simon Community
A leading homeless charity has laid bare what it called the humanitarian crisis of homelessness with nearly 2,300 people in emergency accommodation in the capital. Accusing the Government of doing too...
View ArticleFirst 31 extra emergency beds for homeless available in Dublin
The first 31 additional beds allocated to address the homeless crisis in Dublin were made available last night to people who have been sleeping on the city’s streets. The facility was opened by the...
View ArticleFamily with young children found sleeping rough in Dublin
The Director of Inner City Helping Homeless, Anthony Flynn has said there is a lack of money to pay for homeless beds. His comments follow events last night when a family with three children all under...
View ArticleMore than 3,000 adults accessing homeless services
at its highest since current record-keeping began in 2010, the latest figures show. The numbers have surpassed 3,000 for the first time, with 3,095 adults in emergency accommodation in the period...
View ArticleAuthorities made ‘repeated attempts’ to help homeless man
Dublin’s homeless authority says repeated offers of accommodation were made to Jonathan Corrie, the rough sleeper who died just yards from Leinster House earlier this week. The organisation said...
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