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Focus Ireland Press Releases provide the very latest information issued to media outlets.
Our most up-to-date releases in relation to homelessness and housing can be viewed below.

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Focus Ireland expresses deep concern that lone parents account for over half of families who are homeless according to a new report

Focus Ireland has welcomed the new report published by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Ihrec) and the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and called for concerted action to address the...

Focus Ireland welcomes ambition of ‘Housing for All’ but stresses the challenge will come in the implementation

Charity calls for collaboration on an implementation Plan to deliver objective of ending homelessness & pledges to work with Government to achieve this Focus Ireland has welcomed today’s publication of the Government’s new strategy, ‘Housing for All’, particularly the commitment to...

Focus Ireland Says New Govt Strategy Must Include urgent and radical Actions to Prevent Homelessness as number of people homeless rises to 8132

Charity calls for twin track approach to increase social housing & improve prevention The number of people homeless has risen for the second month in a row as figures published by the Department of Housing...

As the number of people homeless rises to 8,014 Focus Ireland is deeply concerned with the rise in families who are homeless

Figures published today by the Department of Housing show that the total level of homelessness broke through the 8,000 threshold again, while the number of families that are homeless rose by 4 nationwide in June (928 in May rising to 932 in June), with 14 additional homeless families in...

Focus Ireland launch new Sligo Office on Wine Street with charity founder Sr Stan and CEO Pat Dennigan

Focus Ireland Founder and Life President Sr Stan and CEO Pat Dennigan will this morning officially launched Focus Ireland’s new Sligo Office on Wine street. Focus Ireland Sligo have been providing homeless...

Almost 40,000 adults experienced homelessness in Ireland since 2014 while most of €1bn expenditure went on ‘passive’ emergency shelter.

Over 38,000 adults experienced homelessness since 2014 according to new research published by Focus Ireland and the School of Social Work and Social Policy in Trinity College today (Wednesday 23rd June 2021.)  The...

As homeless numbers rise as lockdown eases Focus Ireland says new Government strategy must deliver policy shift required to end crisis & fix Ireland’s broken housing system

Figures published today by the Department of Housing show the number of people who are homeless in April rose by 22 to 8,082 compared to 8,060 in the previous month. There was also a rise in the number...

Focus Ireland’s #FocusOnFamilies Campaign Calls for Specific Govt Strategy to Tackle Family Homelessness

Focus Ireland is concerned that the family homelessness crisis will deepen as the eviction ban ends.    Focus Ireland launched a new #FocusOnFamilies campaign today which is calling for the Government to develop a specific strategy to...

Focus Ireland present #EndHomelessness petition to three Government parties calling on a target date to the end the crisis

Charity has amassed over 10,000 #EndHomelessness signatures  Focus Ireland today presented its #EndHomelessness petition with over 10,200 signatures to three Government parties to set a target date for ending homelessness. Director Of Advocacy Mike Allen and Campaign Coordinator Louise Bayliss handed the petition to Senator...

We are driven by the fundamental belief that homelessness is wrong. Wrong because it is a failure of society that creates victims out of ordinary people and robs them of their potential. Wrong because it can be prevented, it can be solved but is allowed to continue and in doing so, undermines society.

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