5 Dec 2019
The Simon Communities of Ireland today launch their Annual Report for 2018, showing a 26% increase in people turning to all of their emergency, prevention, sustainment services and housing throughout the country over 12 months to the end of last year.
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3 Dec 2019
The Simon Communities of Ireland have said that new figures showing a record number of people in emergency accommodation in October underlines the need for urgent action on homelessness as winter sets in.
14 Nov 2019
November 14: The Simon Communities in Ireland have welcomed recommendations contained in two new reports on homelessness and housing published by Oireachtas Committees this afternoon.
31 Oct 2019
The Simon Communities in Ireland have said that new figures showing a record number of people in emergency accommodation in September is extremely disappointing, and demonstrates that the Government’s Rebuilding Ireland programme is not delivering much-needed affordable housing at the scale required.
9 Oct 2019
Budget 2020 has seen the housing crisis eclipsed by a possible Brexit crisis, and that deepens the complexity of solving the biggest and most widespread issue facing modern Ireland. That’s according to the Simon Communities of Ireland. While welcoming the Government’s commitments to Rebuilding Ireland, it warns that much more substantive and timely interventions are needed to solve Ireland’s housing crisis.
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There are many reasons why a person becomes homeless, in Simon we deal with them all.