New thinking on homelessness gives cause for hope

Home Sweet Home is challenging obsolete attempts to address the housing crisis

The Apollo House protests in central Dublin last week Picture: RollingNews

Housing dominated the political agenda in 2016 like never before. Decades of underinvestment and bad policy across all tenures created a dysfunctional housing system.

The recession didn’t just make things worse, it lit the fuse that has resulted in an explosion of housing need.

Council housing lists grow ever longer. Homelessness, including child homelessness, has reached epidemic proportions. Affordability in the rental and purchase sectors has gone out of reach for many people, ...