Calls to housing charity double

The number of calls to housing charity Threshold doubled last year and almost half its clients were families with children.

Threshold also said 29% of calls it received in 2016 related to situations where clients were at risk of losing their homes.

As it unveiled its 2016 Annual Report, Threshold said the situation had worsened further in 2017 and called on the Government to do more to protect tenancies and prevent people from becoming homeless. In the report’s foreword, Threshold chairwoman Aideen Hayden said the organisation had received 71,319 calls last year, a 100% rise over 2015.