Different types of homelessness need different types of solutions

Homelessness cannot be treated like an illness ... and people cannot be treated like machines, writes Alison O’Connor

WENTY years ago almost to the day I wrote an article about a woman who was doing amazing work with homeless people. Roll on two decades and she continues to do so.

In that first article I wrote of how Alice Leahy had immaculately manicured fingernails, painted a deep pink. The habit remains. She may spend her mornings dressing ulcers or tending to the sore and battered feet of homeless people but Alice wouldn’t see that as a reason to dress down.