We simply need to make better policy

The ‘something must be done’ approach to homelessness is not enough

A candlelit memorial to Jonathan Corrie in the doorway where he died Picture: Clodagh Kilcoyne

Something must be done. Something always needs to be “done.”

Ben and Gerry (“we sell ice-cream at the weekends”) stand at the door of the Capuchin Day Centre for homeless people on Bow Street. They are handing out the lunch tickets and know everybody on a first-name basis. The queue for the hot meal snakes down the block. Five hundred ...