Coalition homeless strategy ‘in tatters’

MORE people than ever are sleeping rough because the Government has reneged on its pledge to tackle a homeless crisis, charity groups said yesterday.

The number of new homeless cases encountered by the Simon Community has doubled this year in comparison with figures for the first three months of 2002.

Today, Dublin Simon Community’s annual report will show that outreach workers have so far this year encountered between 34 and 39 new homeless people every month, as workers come across one new homeless person every day in the capital.