homelessness

Driving home for Christmas? Be thankful

John Lavery on December 22, 2018, 9:35 am

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As I walked through Belfast City Centre a couple of Fridays ago I passed, scattered among the late-night revellers, five maybe six rough sleepers. Some were out cold, some awake looking vacantly at the crowds and some taking the opportunity of the passing footfall to ask for spare change. Seeing rough sleepers in Belfast is nothing new, I recall them from my childhood too. But it remains something that is hard to see and fathom, at this time of year …

“In this awful priest ridden country they still managed to build good houses for working people…”

Brian O'Neill on August 27, 2017, 1:27 pm

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In an interview in today’s Sunday Business Post the writer Roddy Doyle discusses the homeless situation in Dublin: It is the thing I feel ashamed of, more than anything, as a citizen. Somehow or other in the 1950’s and 1960’s, in this awful priest ridden country that we used to live in, they still managed to build good houses for working people, and there wasn’t a penny in the country. Now it seems beyond the means. We cannot supply housing to …

Housing and Homelessness Hustings #homes4all

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on April 15, 2016, 6:18 pm

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BROAD AGREEMENT between wide range of parties on need to tackle NI housing shortage and deal with the wider issues around homelessness at this afternoon’s Housing & Homelessness Hustings in North Belfast.

It is time that we all face up to the reality of homelessness and accept that it is no longer someone else’s problem.

Soapbox on December 1, 2015, 7:00 am

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HOMELESSNESS: What do you see when you think of homelessness? Most of us will think of a young man sleeping rough in a city centre doorway, or someone drunk on a park bench surrounded by empty cans. Whilst this unfortunately is the reality for some, most homelessness is hidden from view, out of sight and therefore out of mind.

25% increase in homelessness as a result of intimidation (just one OFMdFM’s real problems)

Mick Fealty on May 16, 2013, 12:24 pm

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Courtesy of Mark Devenport tweeted directly from Stormont… Jennifer Hawthorne told Social Development Committee figure stood at around 580 cases, 387 of which were due to paramilitary intimidation — Mark Devenport (@markdevenport) May 16, 2013 Some things won’t just go away by chiding the media for being too pessimistic… This is one of the hidden costs in collapsing into a separate but equal approach to the future… Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the …