Joyce Fegan: Has our outrage over homelessness been tamed?

Have we become so used, so immune, to the homeless crisis, that we have lost touch with the human beings behind the numbers?

Glen Hansard and Brendan Ogle outside Apollo House with their supporters in 2017. Although the situation has escalated in the past six years, our outrage, and our protests, seem to have eased. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews

In early January 2017, a large group of people formed a human chain around a building in Dublin city centre — Apollo House. 

In the preceding weeks, the commercial building had become home to about 40 people who were homeless. On the night of December 15, 2016, a group of highly-organised activists quietly took over the building for the express use of housing people, and getting the nation talking.