{"id":1705,"date":"2021-10-29T16:51:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/housing-for-all-a-meaningless-slogan-as-homelessness-rises\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T16:51:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:51:46","slug":"housing-for-all-a-meaningless-slogan-as-homelessness-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/housing-for-all-a-meaningless-slogan-as-homelessness-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Housing For All&#8217; A Meaningless Slogan As Homelessness Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Budget 2022 cut funding for homeless services by \u20ac24 million<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Housing for All is nothing more than a meaningless slogan given homelessness has risen for the fifth month in a row, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan T.D<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest homelessness figures, published by the Department of Housing today, show the number of people who are homeless and living in emergency accommodation has increased to 8,475. There has also been a 10pc increase in the number of children who are homeless in just two months.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth month in a row that the number of people who are homeless has increased. The government\u2019s Housing for All slogan means nothing when homelessness rises month after month on their watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHomelessness is not inevitable. It is the direct result of decisions made by the government. This includes a decision not to increase spending on homeless prevention and Housing First. Budget 2022 cut funding for homeless services by \u20ac24 million. How can this be justified when homeless numbers are on the rise?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of cutting funding for homeless services, the government should have allocated more resources for Housing First tenancies &#8211; a model which has proven successful at ending long-term homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without the required funding and a comprehensive plan, the government\u2019s goal of ending homelessness by 2030 is doomed to be yet another broken promise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a country, we cannot continue to do the same things and expect different results. The\u00a0Minister for Housing must produce a detailed, costed and funded plan to end homelessness in Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>29 October, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget 2022 cut funding for homeless services by \u20ac24 million Housing for All is nothing more than a meaningless slogan given homelessness has risen for the fifth month in a row, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan T.D \u201cThe latest homelessness figures, published by the Department of Housing today, show the number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cian-ocallaghan","category-housing-crisis","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Housing For All&#039; 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