Homeless charities warn winter crisis looms

Homeless charities have warned that Cork is facing a rough sleeping crisis this winter because of a chronic lack of housing.

A leading sociologist believes the Government’s goal of ending homelessness by 2016 is slipping away.

Dr Niamh Hourigan, a senior lecturer at University College Cork’s School of Sociology and Philosophy, was speaking at the launch of a report for Cork Simon yesterday which has identified the chronic lack of housing as the single biggest barrier to people moving out of homelessness.