The Irish Homeless Policy Group (IHPG) has called on the incoming coalition government to prioritize ending homelessness by implementing ten key actions, including building more than 55,000 homes annually and ensuring no one sleeps rough.
Call has been made by Irish Homeless Policy Group as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael continue talks aimed at developing a programme for government by 2030 among a number of “key actions” that an umbrella group of organisations dealing with the issue want the incoming coalition to commit to.
The Irish Homeless Policy Group (IHPG) – which includes Focus Ireland, Threshold, the Irish Refugee Council and others – have made the call as The 10 key actions the group is seeking include the development of collaborative structures to end homelessness and ensuring more than 55,000 homes are built each year to meet housing needs across Irish society. They also want measures to ensure that nobody has to sleep rough, called for the development of a strategy for the private rental sector and improved transparency in relation to access to homeless services.Dublin soup kitchen bylaws must not push volunteer groups ‘out of existence’, councillors saySerious concern for ‘few hundred’ rough sleepers amid snow and freezing rain IHPG chairperson Emma Byrne said the group believes the 10 key actions should be included in the next programme for government. She said: “It’s quite rare to get this level of agreement across organisations working in and around an issue. “We believe that this signals both the scale of the issue and the different types of people that have been affected by the Mike Allen of Focus Ireland said his organisation wants to see people in long-term homelessness prioritised for housing and a commitment to try to create a scheme to do this. He said this is not simple, acknowledging there can be “perceptions of unfairness”, but he said it is possible. Mr Allen said: “if the government currently under formation fails to devise such a scheme, it will continue to fail on homelessness even if it succeeds on housing”., who attended the IHPG launch event said he thinks an emergency eviction ban needs to be reintroduced as there were 16,000 notices to quit issued last yea
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