‘Glaring Gaps’ In Government’s Housing Policy

One of the country’s leading social justice campaigners has hit out at what she's called ‘glaring gaps’ in the Government’s housing policy. 

Sr Stanislaus Kennedy told MacGill Summer School in Co Donegal that the need for a home has become a ‘debased currency’ and attempts to regulate the private rented sector have been a ‘complete failure’.

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She says this has forced at-risk families into homelessness – with more than 1-thousand children ‘left with no roof over their heads’.

Sr Stanislaus Kennedy says the failure to come up with a working strategy is 'indecent' and has had a catastrophic impact.