“We believe homelessness is not something that is happening to someone over there that we can ignore. It is completely bound up with the high rents that people are facing, it is the young people not being able to buy or rent homes, it’s the people in mortgage arrears” – Mike Allen, Focus Ireland

Local authorities need to become involved in the collation of data on empty properties and derelict sites of all types and sizes – Brian Friel, National Director of Housing with Peter McVerry Trust.

74 families became newly homeless in Dublin in April while almost quarter of a million houses remain empty across the country.

€12m redevelopment includes 21 new apartments in the college, a 10-bed group home, and 36 one-bed apartments and a range of support services.