{"id":7017,"date":"2024-07-26T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/?p=7017"},"modified":"2024-07-26T14:30:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:30:52","slug":"more-people-homeless-now-than-at-any-point-in-the-history-of-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/more-people-homeless-now-than-at-any-point-in-the-history-of-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"More people homeless now than at any point in the history of the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest homelessness figures are further proof that the Government is completely out of ideas when it comes to tackling the housing crisis, according to Social Democrats TD Cian O\u2019Callaghan.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy O\u2019Callaghan, who is the party\u2019s spokesperson on housing, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are now 14,303 people living in homeless emergency accommodation \u2013 the highest ever recorded in the history of the State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShockingly, 4,404 of these are children \u2013 a 66 per cent increase since this Government took charge\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere can be no doubts that Fine Gael and Fianna F\u00e1il are incapable of dealing with this crisis. Since taking office in 2011, Fine Gael have presided over an increase of 10,495 people becoming homeless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFianna F\u00e1il, despite their endless political spin, have continued the appalling record of their predecessors since taking over the Department of Housing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese figures comes in the wake of most recent RTB Notices of Termination report which showed another 4,035 people are facing eviction and at risk of homelessness since the beginning of April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urgently need to end no fault evictions that are driving renters into homelessness. Ireland remains an outlier in Europe where renters must live in constant fear of eviction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot sit back and watch more and more people go through the trauma of becoming homeless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are tragic consequences to the Government\u2019s inaction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>July 26, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest homelessness figures are further proof that the Government is completely out of ideas when it comes to tackling the housing crisis, according to Social Democrats TD Cian O\u2019Callaghan. Deputy O\u2019Callaghan, who is the party\u2019s spokesperson on housing, said: \u201cThere are now 14,303 people living in homeless emergency accommodation \u2013 the highest ever recorded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7017","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 v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More homeless now than at any point in history of State<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We must end no-fault evictions to stem the rising tide of homelessness in Ireland, says housing spokesperson Cian 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