Tenancy protection service saves 2,600 people from homelessness

A new tenancy protection service has saved more than 2,600 people, including some 1,100 children, from homelessness in Cork and Kerry.

Housing charity Threshold will publish a report this morning on the progress of the first full year of operation of its Cork Tenancy Protection Service (TPS).

Delivered in partnership with Cork city and county councils, Kerry County Council, and the Department of Social Protection, it was introduced in January 2015 after Threshold identified a need to bridge the affordability gap between rent supplement limits and rising market rents to prevent tenants from becoming homeless.