{"id":738,"date":"2013-06-16T06:34:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T06:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=738"},"modified":"2013-06-16T06:37:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T06:37:35","slug":"homelessness-growing-and-thousands-of-homes-left-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/homelessness-growing-and-thousands-of-homes-left-empty\/","title":{"rendered":"Homelessness Growing And Thousands Of Homes Left Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homelessness Growing And Thousands Of Homes Left Empty<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Dublin South West representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has called for immediate action by the state to deal with the rising numbers of homeless people across Ireland. He made his comments in light of figures from Dublin City Council Central Placement Service which stated that over the four local authorities in Dublin eight new people are presenting as homeless every day. Crowe said it was an obscenity that people were homeless while thousands of properties were lying empty.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said;<\/p>\n

\u201cThese new figures illustrate the extent of the Homeless problem in the Dublin City area but the problem is not just in that area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat eight new people present as homeless every single day in Dublin is completely unacceptable but there are also\u00a0 many thousands more, living in crowded, damp and dangerous conditions across Dublin and the State.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to the financial crisis in the country, and because of the Government\u2019s own austerity measures, it is clear for everyone to see that the homelessness situation in Ireland is getting worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor many people at the moment, the only thing standing between them and homelessness is their next pay packet or social welfare contribution.<\/p>\n

\u201cCuts to funding for housing support, health services, probation, welfare services, and education and training services, all have major knock-on effects that contribute to homelessness. Cuts to these vital supports are not only increasing the possibility of homelessness, but also prevents people from moving out of homelessness.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrent funding levels for homelessness need to be maintained if not increased in the upcoming budget.<\/p>\n

\u201cFocus Ireland estimates that there are 5,000 homeless people in Ireland and 100,000 people are on various local housing waiting lists. Yet from CSO figures contained in the \u2018Roof Over Our Heads\u2019 Report, we know that there are over we have 230,000 vacant homes across the country.<\/p>\n

“Taxpayers are being forced to subsidise Banks, the lifestyle of developers and speculators and NAMA is sitting on thousands of empty homes while individuals and families are homeless.<\/p>\n

“This doesn’t make any financial or logical sense and is just morally wrong<\/p>\n

\u201cI am calling on the Government to take immediate action on tackling the homelessness problem in Ireland.<\/p>\n

“They should begin by ending the obscenity of thousands of empty homes lying idle across the country while people are being forced to sleep rough or in unsafe hostel accommodation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Homelessness Growing And Thousands Of Homes Left Empty Dublin South West representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has called for immediate action by the state to deal with the rising numbers of homeless people across Ireland. He made his comments in light of figures from Dublin City Council Central Placement Service which stated that over the four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}