Promises to end long-term homelessness have been welcomed as plans to fix up vacant properties and use state-owned buildings to keep families off the streets in the short-term were unveiled.

A generation of Irish children could grow up in emergency accommodation because of a new wave of families becoming homeless due to the housing crisis.

The governor of the Bank of England has castigated a mortgage assistance scheme similar to one being proposed by the Government.

Rent controls and use of vacant housing stock — including refitted hotels — should be considered to ease the looming homelessness crisis, experts have claimed.

Two mothers who joined forces to fight for homeless families like their own say they won’t give up until every family has a secure place to call home.