“I feel . . . people don’t care anymore. I know they go on the protests for the homeless, but that’s not working. The help we need is to lower the rates of the rents. Then everyone could get a proper house, could get a gaff.”
, over a railing and down through undergrowth, are the remains of a campfire, discarded tents and blankets., not her actual name, is with a male friend, packing up their tent. They have found a garden behind a boarded-up house where they will feel “safer”. She has been homeless for four years and has no family to stay with and dislikes the emergency accommodation available.
“You have to ring [the freephone number for homeless] between 4.30 and 5.30. You can ring again at night-time. The only reason you can get a bed then is if someone doesn’t turn up to their bed,” says Stacey.“They wake you at six in the morning. So you’re getting only a few hours’ kip. I’d rather stay in the tent,” she says. “I wouldn’t sleep in a tent on my own, being a girl. Safety? I have protection on me – a little blade. I wouldn’t use it but I have it, just in case.
The most recent data shows there were 2,687 single adults in emergency accommodation in Dublin in November 2019. In all 1,727 single adults became homeless in the capital for the first time between January and November last year.
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