Mike Allen

Number of families without homes has fallen by 40 per cent over the past year

Figures for June show 8,699 people in the State accessed emergency accommodation

Research by Focus Ireland and Trinity shows increase in all types of homelessness

Housing bodies could build 745 homes on nine sites, council’s head of housing says

Development over next three to five years will almost double city’s current capacity

Focus Ireland says increase in figures shows how tough things are getting for some people

Fine Gael needs to ‘step back’ from its current policy, protesters outside Dáil told

Mike Allen says fact homeless figures are not soaring is good news

Homelessness list down by 81 people, despite 73 families registering for first time in June

Leap Cards to be provided on a ‘once off basis’, spokesman for Eoghan Murphy says

Focus Ireland predicts the number of homeless families will rise during the next four years

Focus Ireland study finds families in private rented accommodation ‘bear brunt of crisis’

Micheál Martin says Fine Gael wants to turn Ireland into a nation of renters, not owners

Focus Ireland advocacy director Mike Allen says homeless figures continue to rise

‘Bring in a moratorium which says you can sell your property but you have to leave the tenant in place’

The drop follows a decision to stop giving homeless families priority for housing