Michael Moynihan: Christmas is coming — and the housing crisis doesn't just go away

In the past, it was possible to help people out of homelessness via the private rental sector, but that’s much more difficult now, writes Michael Moynihan.

Dermot Kavanagh, head of Cork Simon Community. Picture: Clare Keogh

THE goose is getting fat.

You hardly need the first part of that rhyme, given the season is all around, as you’ve no doubt noticed. One of the great cliches is to announce that it’s not Christmas for everybody, but there’s a reason such expressions become fossilised through overuse, to use Flann O’Brien’s definition of a cliche.