‘I have to believe that this situation is not forever’: stress mounts in homeless parents and children living in claustrophobic one-room accommodation

With no space and no privacy, the psychological pressure is intense for families living in short-term homeless accommodation and hotels

According to Focus Ireland, over 4,000 children don't have a home coming up to Christmas this year.

“When I came here from Poland 12 years ago, I came to make my situation better,” explains Kasia*. “I didn’t plan on being homeless,” says the 31-year-old Mum of one. “I didn’t imagine that myself and my daughter Karolina* (now 8) would have been struggling with homelessness in some form or other for seven years.”