- Read more: Strengthening Ireland’s Response to Homelessness: The Case for Reviewing Ireland’s National Definition of Homelessness
This policy brief is informed by evidence from the Problem Phase Living Lab sessions undertaken in Ireland as part of the COMHOM project, an EU-funded initiative examining responses to homelessness. Evidence gathered from frontline service providers identifies significant gaps in the recognition and measurement of hidden homelessness within current policy and data collection systems. The…
- Read more: Strengthening Ireland’s Response to Homelessness: The Case for Improving Digital Integration and Data Coordination in Ireland
This policy brief argues that strengthening homelessness responses in Ireland requires a more integrated and coordinated digital infrastructure, supported by standardised approaches to data collection, monitoring and evaluation. A unified and interoperable system would enhance the accuracy and completeness of homelessness data, improve service coordination, and support more effective policy development.
- Read more: Systems Thinking and Homelessness Policy in Ireland
This paper advocates for the application of systems thinking in public policy development as a means of addressing homelessness in Ireland. Systems thinking is an approach to understanding how parts of a system interrelate and how systems evolve over time. Homelessness is a complex systems problem, and this paper proposes that a systemic inquiry of…
- Read more: 10 key actions on homelessness for new Government
The Irish Homeless Policy Group, which is made up of organisations which work in the sphere of housing and homelessness, has published: 10 key actions on homelessness for new Government. The document is available to download here.
- Read more: Designing strategies to prevent homelessness among single adults in Dublin: What the data tells us
Preventing homelessness is a key policy objective in Ireland at both national level and in the Dublin region where most of the homeless population is concentrated. Prevention has also become increasingly central to homelessness policy internationally in recent years (Mackie, 2015). However, prevention strategies and associated investment are often not informed by an adequate empirical…
- Read more: Homeless Report – July 2022
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has published its Homeless Report for July 2022. It is available here.
- Read more: The Impact of the Pandemic on Services Oriented Towards Single Homeless Persons
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgency of providing adequate and appropriate accommodation for the most vulnerable groups within the context of strategies being implemented to curb the spread of the virus.
