The horror of homelessness - Housing crisis

THE revelation that over €25m was spent last year housing homeless families in emergency accommodation in Dublin is an indictment of the housing policies adopted by successive governments since the early 1990s.

When Ireland was a very poor country in the 1950s we managed to build tens of thousands of local authority homes for people who did not have the wherewithal to do it themselves.

Likewise during recessionary times in the 1980s.