‘Put right to a home in Constitution’

A person’s right to a home and adequate housing should be enshrined in the Constitution, a leading social justice campaigner has demanded.

Spiralling rents, a sharp rise in mortgage owners struggling with arrears and increasing repossessions of family homes were among the issues highlighted by Sister Stanislaus Kennedy.

The Focus Ireland founder told the MacGill Summer School in Glenties, Donegal, that the lack of a coherent housing policy had created a housing crisis and rising levels of homelessness in Ireland’s towns and cities.