Dublin's first co-living housing block has been refused planning permission.

A tenant sharing a six-bed house with 17 other people has said they cannot afford to rent a bedroom to themselves in Dublin.

The government has been told to adopt radical solutions to tackle the country's rental market or face a worsening of the housing crisis.

Professor Alan Ahearne told RTÉ Radio’s News at One that it is going to take “a long time” to solve the problem.

Central Bank rules mean people can't borrow more than three and a half times their salary.

Laws should be considered to ban rental-sector booking fees in the same way schools are now banned from charging non-refundable application fees, housing charity Threshold has said.

Seventy more modular homes have been approved for Dublin.

More than 6,000 people are homeless across Ireland.

This letter is an urgent appeal from 14 organisations who work with children to call on An Taoiseach to show leadership on the issue of child homelessness.

Ireland risks "drifting" back to an economic system which will "just repeat all the mistakes" of the past because alternatives are not being considered, President Michael D Higgins yesterday warned.

Recession-hit one-parent families are turning to "legal and illegal" money lenders to survive; live with the fear of going hungry at some stage every week — and are barely able to pay heating bills, or afford children’s clothes.

If ever proof were needed that austerity hits the poorest hardest it is the number of people forced to borrow from moneylenders.

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Organisations that deal with people in need see the direct effect of the cuts on their clients. Noel Baker finds that they are hoping for a move away from the short-term approach that has left many on the brink.

The St Vincent de Paul charity has said that it fears that many people will feel they are unable to heat their homes this winter after Bord Gais' decision to increase prices by 8.5%.

The latest 8.5% gas price hike will put further pressure on hard-pressed families to make ends meet, organisations working with households in financial crisis have warned.

The Society of St Vincent de Paul has said it is concerned that the cuts announced by Brendan Howlin in today's Budget will plunge some families deeper into poverty.

Older people are becoming more isolated and lonely, according to a new report from the St Vincent de Paul.

CAMPAIGNERS against budget cuts to low-income families held a mock cabinet meeting to appeal directly to government ministers to protect the vulnerable.

Leading NGOs and trade unions have teamed up to lobby against potential cuts to social welfare payments and the minimum wage, it emerged today.

ECONOMISTS and statisticians have been telling us food prices are rising and now a trolley of basic items from a standard shop reveals just how much.

A €150m package of measures will be put in place next year to support the care of elderly or ill people in their own homes and communities.

A NEW category of poor is being created by Government stealth taxes and the 16 cuts announced in this week’s Book of Estimates.