The shocking statistic is the result of low State-subsidised rents that remain unattractive to landlords, a lack of rent regulation and an absence in investment in the social housing building programme, the President of Focus Ireland has said.
With the numbers of families becoming homeless rising month on month, a total of 39 families lost their homes in Dublin in June of this year.
“The eighties were bad but I wouldn’t even compare them with today,” President of Focus Ireland Sr Stanislaus Kennedy told independent.ie.
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