{"id":1471,"date":"2013-12-09T19:24:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2013-12-10T10:08:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:08:17","slug":"extra-funding-and-resources-needed-for-homeless-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/extra-funding-and-resources-needed-for-homeless-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra funding and resources needed for homeless &#8211; Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has called on the Government to commit to providing extra funding to tackle homelessness and\u00a0the\u00a0increase of those sleeping rough in the capital.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Dublin South West Deputy made his remarks following the announcement by Focus Ireland\u00a0that the number of families becoming homeless in Dublin has more than\u00a0doubled in the last six months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cThis morning housing charity Focus Ireland reported an 18% increase in demand for their services in 2013. They have also\u00a0said\u00a0that the number of families presenting as homeless in Dublin has doubled from 8 to 16 every month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cToday\u2019s graphic\u00a0figures tell us a simple truth &#8211; the\u00a0government\u2019s chosen strategy of austerity is a contributing factor in forcing many families onto the streets of Dublin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;Following these\u00a0statistics, the Government strategy of eliminating homelessness by 2016 looks like another pipedream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;Homeless people and those creating supports for the growing numbers\u00a0forced to sleep rough tonight\u00a0need\u00a0to know when, if ever,\u00a0will this government intend to tackle this serious crisis.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cA logical step would be for\u00a0the Government as a matter of urgency to\u00a0provide extra funding and accommodation to meet the increase and rise\u00a0of homelessness in Dublin.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">###<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has called on the Government to commit to providing extra funding to tackle homelessness and\u00a0the\u00a0increase of those sleeping rough in the capital. The Dublin South West Deputy made his remarks following the announcement by Focus Ireland\u00a0that the number of families becoming homeless in Dublin has more than\u00a0doubled in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}