Più di 5.000 bambini affrontano il Natale in alloggi di emergenza, come rivelano i nuovi dati record sui senzatetto
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/more-than-5000-children-face-christmas-in-emergency-accommodation-as-new-record-homelessness-figures-revealed/a2091308281.html
di PoppedCork
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Another grim milestone.
16,755 people in emergency accommodation in October the highest ever including 5,274 children who’ll spend Christmas in hotels and hubs. That’s a 12% rise since last year.
Dublin is worst hit: 1,750 families, 3,883 children, and 8,141 adults. Charities say services are stretched to breaking point, and these numbers don’t even include rough sleepers or hidden homelessness.
Landlord notices to quit are up 35%, mostly because properties are being sold. Focus Ireland says a lot of landlords are acting on misinformation about next year’s tenancy rule changes.
Amid all this, 7,278 single adults will spend Christmas without a home a group charities say is being largely ignored in the new Housing Plan.
Absolutely bleak reading.
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In before the far right eejits come in here saying something something and look at all the refugees getting everything for free something something
There was a time when the idea of more than five thousand children going homeless in this country would have been a true scandal. Today, it is literally just another headline, in a long list of headlines, detailing our complete failure to grapple with our housing crisis. It is a moral failure and stain upon the character of every member of Government, and their bank bench TDs who have propped up and sustained such a grotesques system for decades now. None of them should be able to sleep at night.
Well done. Another truly fucking remarkable figure.
If you continue to vote for FFG, this is on you.
remember that phase they said back then? “let’s keep the recovery going”
Incredible how the Homeless figures are mirroring the approximate number of bedsits that were removed from the Irish market, with no viable alternatives built or proposed, by 2013.
The broadly accepted number of 15000 bedsit units were eliminated.
Rather than find a formula that made this type of accommodation more livable and eliminated the slums.
The Government of the day removed 15k units from circulation and forced those on the bottom rung of the housing ladder to compete with couples & small families for Studio & 1 bedroom accommodation.
The building of that particular type of accommodation collapsed from 2009, and indeed the overall collapse in house and apartment building post the 2008 crash has only exacerbated the problem.
The Govt oversaw the elimination of shared accommodation, did nothing to address it other than “hope” that the market would provide.
The market saw larger profit in 2 bed and larger homes, be the standalone or apartments and the low end, single & couples starting out have been completely abandoned.
It doesn’t need to be like this and indeed it shouldn’t be.
The example of shared/studio style living that is prevalent in student accommodation in Europe in particular is a quick and easy win.
One that at scale could also address our student housing crisis too.
The”Lumis Student Living” building in Vienna is IMHO a great example of what is possible.
Studio style rooms, with small kitchen and fantastic range of shared facilities.
It would allow for a whole swathe of people to be housed at reasonable costs while the construction industry adds capacity to build homes that are desperately needed.
The elimination of that 15k units 12yrs ago is more and more obvious as a capacity blunder.
Better regulation of bedsits and HMO could really be a quick means of stopping the inexorable rise in our homeless figures and allow meaningful impact on our social housing lists.
I know 3 mothers giving brand new council houses this week and all 3 have unmarried tradesmen partners earning north of 1000 , it’s too easy to con the system making it easy for real people in need to fall through the cracks
>there were 16,766 people in emergency accommodation during the week of October 20th to the 26th.
That was made up of 11,492 adults and 5,274 children in 2,484 families.
in 2011 there were [3,808 homeless people in the state](https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/census/documents/homelesspersonsinireland/Homeless_persons_in_Ireland_A_special_Census_report.pdf) – 0.08% of the total population at the time. current homeless
figures reflect 0.32% of the population.
in their 15 years of continuous governance, Fine Gael have presided over a more than 300% increase in homeless population (the total population of the state increased by only 12% in the same time period)
there are now almost 1.5x as many homeless *children* as there were homeless people *in total* 15 years ago.
this is an unequivocal failure of both government and society. if you vote for the establishment, this is what you are voting for. this is the suffering you are endorsing and this is the violence you are enabling. and it will not end as long as Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil hold the reins of power in ireland.
if you have voted for a government party since 2011, if you have ever given Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil even a preference, you are complicit in the suffering of each of those 11,492 adults and each one of those 5,274 children.
can we not do better than this? is this really how we want ireland to be? are you content living in a society in which it is apparently an acceptable state of affairs to just stand back and watch thousands and thousands of families suffering, for what? better property values and bigger balance sheets?
shame on us.
As shocking as these figures are, they are not stopping. The housing crisis is getting worse and worse, week by week. So these numbers are going to continue to rise every single month. They are going to hit 20k, they are probably going to hit 30k.
Finland and EU country with similar population has ended homelessness. We should be ashamed of our country.
These are not numbers they are children.
Our government continues to fail children and we just do almost nothing. The most i’ve seen them questioned on these figures is by Tommy Bowe on a light entertainment show and vradkar got very uncomfortable. Its a failing on us as a population that we don’t make more noise about this and it’s a failing on our media that fail to challenge them
‘A lot done, more to do’ of destroying the family
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