Focus Ireland and the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) have produced a new guidance resource for primary school teachers and principals who are supporting students and families who are homeless or at risk.

The Government has been told to “urgently review” its Rebuilding Ireland strategy after latest homelessness figures showed only a small decrease in the total number of people living in emergency accommodation.

The majority of homeless families had rented privately before losing their homes, according to a new study.

Nine out of 10 families that are now homeless had stable housing histories and lived in their last stable home for over a year.

The number of reports of suspected abuse of children living in emergency accommodation peaked around Christmas and New Year, according to new figures.

The rush by developers to build apartments in Dublin and other large urban areas continues with applications for over 1,200 apartments put before An Bord Pleanala over four days.

Fianna Fáil leader has accused the government of conducting a social experiment to turn Ireland away from homeownership and into a rental model.

The head of advocacy at homeless charity Focus Ireland is calling on the Minister for Housing to look at the right to a home provision in the Constitution.

A homelessness charity says it is ‘really concerned’ that a report from the Ombudsman for Children’s Office on family hub centres runs the risk of further stigmatising those living in temporary accommodation centres.

Labour will consider a motion on entering a Government coalition at its conference this weekend as well as allowing a future leader to come from the Upper House.

Internal correspondence shows confusion over the categorising of people living in emergency accommodation in five areas, and how in some cases incorrect tallies of homeless people were down to miscalculations and omissions.

The Government has been told its policies on reducing homelessness are “not working” after latest data showed record numbers are in emergency accommodation.

Last week saw the biggest homeless figures on record.

The Government has been warned that the homelessness crisis may worsen unless steps are taken to protect people in the private, rented sector, after latest figures showed a record 9,104 people were homeless in January.

Charities have warned that the Government still has a very long way to go in fully addressing the homelessness crisis after latest figures indicated a fall in the number of people in emergency accommodation during December.

Focus Ireland says it is concerned at the surprise re-appointment of Conor Skehan as chairman of the Housing Agency, claiming that the move “raises quite significant challenges”.

Family homelessness appears to have stabilised in Dublin, the housing minister has said.

The Government will not bring in a law that would stop families being evicted by landlords, as the number of people living in emergency accommodation hit record levels.

The number of homeless people increased again in September, with 8,374 people accessing emergency accommodation, despite a range of Government initiatives to tackle the crisis.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has admitted housebuilding figures announced in the budget have been known for weeks.

"We can only do so much…The Minister has to introduce the policies to prevent (these families) becoming homeless."

Latest: The Housing Minister has said any one family in emergency accommodation is a family too many.

Plans to increase the number of social houses being built “fall far short” of what is required to address the escalating crisis, a key homeless charity has claimed.

The Government has come under renewed pressure to bring in radical measures to tackle the housing crisis after the number of homeless burst past the 8,000 mark in July.

The Government is to convene an emergency housing summit next week in the wake of the deaths of two homeless people and amid stinging criticism of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.

The Government is to convene an emergency housing summit next week in the wake of the deaths of two homeless people and amid stinging criticism of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.

Update - 3.01pm: The Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has extended his sympathies to the families of the two homeless people who died yesterday.

More than a quarter of all 6,906 homeless people recorded on night of Census 2016 were children.

Homelessness is having a stark impact on the nutrition of families, according to a new report from charity Focus Ireland.

There are calls for child protection authorities to intervene after the housing minister said a deadline to stop using emergency accommodation for the homeless cannot be met.

According to Barnardos there are more than 10,000 children on HSE waiting lists for an initial speech and language assessment. It would cost a measly €268m over five years to hire the professionals to fix these waiting lists, writes Fergus Finlay

The chief executive of a Dublin charity offered his office, at midnight, to a homeless family with two children.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald accepted that the referring of 12 homeless families to Garda stations on Tuesday night was “completely unacceptable”.

Almost 7,500 people are homeless and more than 2,500 of them are children, new figures reveal.

One in every nine people is worried that they will lose their home, according to a new survey from Focus Ireland.

More than 2,500 children will be homeless in Ireland on Christmas day.

The number of homeless people in Dublin has increased by 35% in the last year, according to new figures.

Homelessness charities have welcomed the €28m allocated by the Government to provide additional emergency homeless accommodation.

Focus Ireland is finding it impossible to keep pace with the rate of homelessness.

Focus Ireland has urged the Government to implement legislation to protect vulnerable homeowners and tenants from vulture funds, warning that thousands of people could be at risk of being removed from their homes.

A new Housing Authority is needed to tackle the escalating homelessness crisis in Ireland before the issue intensifies this winter, the opposition claims.