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Dublin Simon Community Launches Annual Impact Report 2022

Dublin Simon Community today launched its Annual Impact Report, revealing that 1,011 people are living in ‘forever’ homes provided by the charity and almost 5,500 people were supported in a range of ways throughout 2022. The report showed an 18% increase in the number of people living in long-term accommodation, however, there was an overall […]

Dublin Simon Community Responds to April 2023 Homeless Report

April 2023 Homeless Figures Statement   Dublin is bearing the brunt of the homelessness and housing crisis, with 9,010 people in emergency accommodation in April, representing a 3% increase on the previous month and a 25% increase over the past 12 months.    Last week, the Dublin Simon Outreach team logged more than ninety calls in a four-hour period,three times what […]

Dublin Simon Community Responds to March 2023 Homeless Report

Dublin Simon CEO Catherine Kenny responds to the February Homeless Report released on Friday the 28th of April. Homeless Report  “The number of people staying in emergency accommodation in Dublin was up significantly in March, in a continuation of the trend seen over the past 15 months and representing an 25% increase on March 2022.  […]

Dublin Simon Community Responds to February 2023 Homeless Report

Dublin Simon CEO Catherine Kenny responds to the February Homeless Report released on Friday the 31st of March. Talk of housing targets is meaningless to those individuals with no forwarding address. There is nowhere for them to go, and they need homes now. It is due to successive systemic failures in the delivery of housing […]

Dublin Simon Community Responds to December 2022 Homeless Report

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage released the Homeless Report for December 2022 earlier today. Dublin Simon Community CEO, Catherine Kenny responds to the December report: “We are deeply frustrated by the increase in the number of people in Dublin emergency accommodation recorded in the December 2022 Homeless Report. This is highly unusual […]

Dublin Simon Community Responds to November 2022 Homeless Report

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage released the Homeless Report for November 2022 earlier today. Dublin Simon Community CEO, Catherine Kenny, has made the following statement in response to the report Homeless Report November 2022 Statement  We are dismayed by the increase in the number of people presenting to emergency accommodation services in […]

Dublin Simon Community Responds to October 2022 Homeless Report

The Homeless Report for October 2022 was released today by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Dublin Simon Community CEO, Catherine Kenny, has made the following statement regarding this report. “We are devastated to learn of the continued increase in the number of people presenting to Dublin emergency accommodation services. For the sixth […]

Dublin Simon Community Responds to January 2023 Homeless Report

The Homeless Report for January 2023 has been released today by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Dublin Simon CEO, Catherine Kenny responds with the following statement. January 2023 Homeless Figures Statement  We are deeply worried by the increase in the number of homeless people staying in emergency accommodation in Dublin. This first […]

Dublin Simon Community Responds to September 2022 Homeless Report

Septembers Homeless Report has been released today by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. New CEO Catherine Kenny makes her first public statement in response to the report. “We are alarmed by the rise in the number of people presenting to Emergency Accommodation reported today by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. This comes […]

Will You Help People Like Mark?

Mark is the father of two little girls who was devastated by the recent death of his wife. Mark found that the grief he felt was compounded by the mounting stress of running a household on a single income. He’s doing all he can to cut costs. Buying the cheapest groceries he can, for example. […]