Sister Stan: 'Homelessness damages children most of all'

'Being homeless causes people terrible trauma and it damages children the most,' Sr Stan said in Cork yesterday at the launch of 16 new Focus Ireland homes. Picture: iStock

Homelessness damages children the most, Focus Ireland founder Sr Stanislaus Kennedy has warned as the moratorium on evictions was lifted from today — which campaigners have said will lead to a tsunami of homelessness.

The veteran campaigner said the housing crisis is now the worst she has seen in some 40 years of activism, with the latest figures showing 11,742 people in emergency homeless accommodation as of last month.