Rarely a week goes by without a reference to housing, homelessness and the difficulties faced by those seeking suitable accommodation in the State. In fact, the “housing crisis” and “homelessness crisis” have consistently been at the forefront of issues facing Irish society for the past decade. The acuteness of these issues can perhaps be illustrated with one simple statistic – the number of people who are homeless and relying on emergency homeless accommodation in Ireland in November 2022 was 11,542, up from 3,607 just eight years previously.[1] This of course does not take into consideration the additional pressure placed on State accommodation resources by those seeking international protection from war and/or acts of persecution,[2] which has been significantly compounded by the war in Ukraine.
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