{"id":4995,"date":"2024-03-28T14:41:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2024-03-28T14:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:41:26","slug":"levels-of-homelessness-exploding-under-this-calamitous-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/levels-of-homelessness-exploding-under-this-calamitous-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Levels of homelessness exploding under this calamitous government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Taoiseach-in-waiting Simon Harris must step up, where his predecessors have failed, and immediately introduce a ban on no-fault eviction<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Levels of homelessness have exploded under the watch of this calamitous government \u2013 who seem more interested in jockeying for power than solving the housing disaster, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are now 13,841 people living in homeless emergency accommodation &#8211; the highest number in the history of the State. Tragically, 4,170 of these are children, representing a 57 per cent rise since this Government took charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Dublin, where house prices and rents are highest, the situation is especially dire. Homeless figures in the capital have breached 10,000 for the first time, meaning more than 70pc of everyone who is homeless lives in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis calamitous Government is nearly four years in office and is now moving onto its third Taoiseach. Throughout their tenure, they have managed to turn a housing crisis into a housing disaster with an additional 5,142 people becoming homeless since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe simply cannot, and must not, accept this appalling level of homelessness. Action is needed now to protect people from the trauma of losing their home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaoiseach-in-waiting Simon Harris must step up, where his predecessors have failed, and immediately introduce a ban on no-fault evictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no acceptable level of homelessness. This is not a government that is short on funds to tackle the crisis. Ensuring that every child grows up with a home should be the bare minimum for the new Taoiseach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>28 March, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taoiseach-in-waiting Simon Harris must step up, where his predecessors have failed, and immediately introduce a ban on no-fault eviction Levels of homelessness have exploded under the watch of this calamitous government \u2013 who seem more interested in jockeying for power than solving the housing disaster, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan. \u201cThere are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4995","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 - 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