Report highlights how vulnerable suffer in growing housing divide 

UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing Balakrishnan Rajagopal said he was 'quite shocked' at the situation faced, in particular, by single or lone-parent households who, he said, seem 'particularly disadvantaged on nearly all housing rights dimensions assessed by this report'.

A damning new report on the growing divide in access to housing has highlighted how the most vulnerable sections of society are often either in overcrowded, inadequate housing – or in emergency accommodation.

The report, compiled jointly by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the Economic and Social Research Institute, shows lone parents, people with a disability, and migrants are among groups consistently disadvantaged in our housing system – and at least one support organisation says it does not believe the Government's Housing for All plan will fix it.