Build more social housing - Resolving the housing crisis

AS the housing crisis escalates it is inevitable, though still unacceptable, that sevices providing emergency accommodation find themselves stretched to breaking point.

This shortage is particularly acute amongst those who need and provide refuge from threat as well as a place to live.

Good Shepherd Services (GSS), a dedicated Cork city charity has warned that family homelessness is reaching a new level of crisis and that they cannot always provide beds to women and children. GSS provided 5,395 emergency bed nights to 113 women and children in the first three months of this year and this represented a 23% increase in demand on the previous corresponding period.