'Shameful' homelessness crisis 'has deepened to an unprecedented level'
The Focus Ireland report showed that the level of households supported out of homelessness increased by 10% from 2023 to 1,209, with the number of families likewise aided up by a massive 21% to 587.
Housing charity Focus Ireland helped a record number of families to find a home in 2024 but warned that Ireland’s homelessness crisis has “deepened to an unprecedented level”.
At the launch of the organisation’s annual report for 2024 in Dublin, Sr Stanislaus Kennedy, the charity’s founder, said that when she first set Focus Ireland up 40 years ago she believed that “homelessness could be ended in 10 years”.
