In its 2018 annual report, Respond says over 2,400 were children, more than half of whom were under the age of five.

In its pre-Budget Submission just released, Respond wants the Government to introduce a National Affordable Rental Scheme.

Mortality rates are three to 10 times higher among homeless men and six to 10 times higher among homeless women compared to the general population.

Respond, one of the country’s longstanding approved housing bodies (AHBs), has asked communities to support new social housing and homeless services in their area in the midst of the current crisis.

Parents have spoken of their joy after moving into new social homes, developed by Nama and a housing agency, in what was formerly an unfinished estate.

A 14-year-old schoolboy, who lacerated his leg on a broken bottle while playing football in “knee-high” grass on a common area near his home, has lost a €38,000 personal injury claim against a housing association.

Thirty homeowners in a Co Waterford housing estate are facing bills of up to €15,000 each for remedial work to make their homes safe after major fire deficiencies were uncovered.

The State is still not ensuring compliance as building boom nightmare hits southeast, writes Michael Clifford

People on the housing waiting list in County Cork may get a boost if the local authority is successful with its plea to the National Housing Agency (NHA) to instruct Nama to allocate vacant homes.

A proposal to increase the compensation to homeowners after Nama sold the majority of their estate for social housing has been shot down by the Department of the Environment.

Labour’s Housing Minister Jan O’Sullivan is trying to convince her Cabinet colleagues of the jobs and economic potential that could be created if the Government was to start building social housing again.

In relation to the letter from Jim O’Sullivan, Sligo (Jul 24), I wish to point out that the Respond Housing Association is a registered charity and not-for-profit organisation.

Charity Respond! has today expressed concern regarding a 500% increase in housing waiting lists in the past 20 years.

THIS budget has been described as “savage”, “cruel” and “unimaginable” by shocked community and anti-poverty groups who are outraged at the cuts aimed at the poorest people in the country.

THE Government expects housing charities to take “huge financial risks” to try to use the glut of empty properties lying idle to house people on localauthority waiting lists.

THE Government expects housing charities to take “huge financial risks” to try to use the glut of empty properties lying idle to house people on localauthority waiting lists.

A PROPERTY tax should be urgently introduced to punish developers who delay in putting their empty housing stock into social use or on the market at a realistic rate, housing charityFocus Ireland has proposed.

More than 28,000 homeowners are three months behind with mortgage repayments, official figures revealed today.

THE mother of a special needs boy whose family face having their home repossessed has revealed how a number of good Samaritans have offered to help after the family’s case was highlighted in the national media.

Ireland’s largest housing charity Respond has called on the Government not to forget the "working poor" or low-income families in this Wednesday’s Budget.

A PLEDGE by mortgage lenders to help struggling customers are useless without legal backing and the inclusion of subprime lenders, organisations aiding those in financial difficulty have claimed.

Promises by top mortgage lenders to help struggling customers are useless to most people threatened with repossessions, it was warned today.

The country’s largest housing charity today demanded top builders and developers be kept out of consultations on the State’s bad bank scheme.

The housing association Respond says it may have to close a day-care centre for the elderly in north Dublin because of a lack of funding from the HSE.

RENEWED efforts are to be made to heal the serious rift between Limerick City Council and Respond, the voluntary housing agency.

VOLUNTARY housing organisation Respond is pulling out of Limerick following severe criticism from members of Limerick City Council.

PEOPLE are getting social housing in Limerick who shouldn’t be let into a field, it was claimed at a housing meeting of the city council.

The Government today confirmed it was allocating €36.7m to more than 30 organisations that provide homeless services in the Dublin area.

RENEWED efforts are to be made to heal the serious rift between Limerick City Council and Respond, the voluntary housing agency.

GARDAÍ have arrested a woman and questioned a man following a raid on a community housing group home which was allegedly being used as a brothel.

GARDAÍ are investigating claims a house owned by a social and community housing group is being used as a brothel.