Does Aspen really want to make homelessness (or being unhoused) a crime? The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week on what simplistically amounts to settling this question: Can towns and cities ...
MEMBERS OF THE Opposition and a housing charity have pulled up the Government after its senior ministers never mentioned ...
EMPLOYMENT IS DIFFICULT to focus on for agencies helping people who are homeless, but it’s also a key solution to homelessness. That’s the message coming out of the Shelter Providers Network Annual ...
The mental health challenges, trauma and isolation being faced by homeless people face is mounting, the charity Depaul warned in its annual impact report on Tuesday. One woman spoke of how she was ...
Carmel Askin never foresaw herself being homeless in retirement. In the last 18 months, the 66-year-old has moved house five times. Unable to afford accommodation in Galway, she turned to her previous ...
Homelessness can predispose individuals to psychiatric disorders. Conversely, certain psychiatric disorders can increase the risk of becoming homeless. A recent article in JAMA Psychiatry by Rebecca ...
'I was suicidal at one point, because I didn’t think I mattered... It was only my key worker that made me start to believe in myself.' Marie Farrell now works with Focus Ireland, the group that helped ...
Families at risk of homelessness may have another chance to avail of a scheme where the State buys the home they are renting from their landlord. The tenant-in-situ scheme allows local authorities to ...
Hundreds of people across the country will give up their beds and sleep out under the stars on Friday night as part of Focus Ireland's annual 'Shine A Light' initiative.The countrywide event, which is ...
The number of people homeless in Ireland has increased for the seventh consecutive month this year, with a record high of 16,058 men, women and children in emergency accommodation last month, ...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Dublin offered on Tuesday to house some of the city's homeless people in church property, as government policy came under fire after a homeless man died just ...