Dublin City Council is to review its eviction policy, following the death of Mr Noel Cahill who contracted hypothermia while sleeping outside the flat from which he had been evicted.
Mr Cahill had been evicted for rent arrears and for his acquaintances' anti-social behaviour.
A spokesman said the council would review its "policies and procedures in relation to evictions in order to try and ensure that this type of tragic situation does not re-occur".
He was speaking after the funeral of Mr Cahill (38) who died early on Thursday morning while sleeping outside the Fatima Mansions flat in Rialto.
Yesterday, the council rejected reports that Mr Cahill had been sleeping outside the flat for 10 days. "From our enquiries locally, there is little evidence to suggest that Mr Cahill was sleeping outside the flat for more than one or two nights," he said. "As far as we are aware, he had been staying with friends on the estate in recent times." The spokesman said the decision to evict Mr Cahill "was not taken lightly" and the council was "satisfied that every effort was made to resolve Mr Cahill's difficulties".
He added: "The anti-social behaviour was being carried out by acquaintances of Mr Cahill and not by Noel himself. However, the city council has to consider the effect of such behaviour on the quality of life of other residents and the local community generally."
Yesterday, a friend of Mr Cahill's told RTÉ's Liveline programme that he was a "gentleman who was taken advantage of".
The man, who called himself "Eddie", said Mr Cahill had a breakdown after the death of his mother a number of years ago and drank a lot in recent months.
"Noel was getting to the stage where he could barely get around a bit and I think he did depend on people," he said. "I'd say some of the people in the flats listening to this programme, took advantage of him. The guards knew exactly that Noel was never a bother," he said.
Mr Bob Jordan, campaigns manager with the Dublin Simon Community, said making people homeless because of anti-social activity was not a solution. He said people with "deep and complex problems" who were vulnerable to homelessness needed services that met their needs. It was "no good" expecting vulnerable people to conform to the service providers' needs.
"You can't expect deeply troubled people to seek out a service, to be articulate about their needs, to hang around for hours and then trot happily home at the close of business. They don't work like that. That approach is not enabling."
In 2002, Dublin City Council applied for 56 eviction warrants through the courts. Some 15 of these were enforced while the remaining 41 were settled.
A spokeswoman for the South West Area Board - which provides services in Rialto - said Mr Cahill had been known to them but "he didn't get in touch about help with rent arrears or housing".
The Simon Community sought an "urgent" meeting with the Minister for Health, Mr Martin, before Christmas, over homelessness. It renewed the call yesterday and also sought a meeting with the Minister of State for Environment and Local Government, Mr Noel Ahern.
A spokesman said Mr Martin would meet the Simon Community. A spokeswoman for Mr Ahern said no request for a meeting had yet been received.