by Policy | Sep 24, 2024 | News, Uncategorized
On 24 September, Grainia Long, the Chief Executive of the Housing Executive, briefed the All Party Group on Homelessness. In her presentation, Ms Long outlined the major challenges this society is facing when it comes to homelessness as well as some of the steps the...
by Policy | May 28, 2024 | News
On 28 May 2024, the Minister for Communities Gordon Lyons MLA briefed the All Party Group on Homelessness and took a wide range of questions from MLAs and observers who attended. In his presentation, Minister Lyons outlined four key areas of work for his Department in...
by Policy | Sep 5, 2023 | News
On Tuesday September 5, the APG on Homelessness received a briefing from officials from the Department for Communities on the development of the Year 4 Interdepartmental Homelessness Action Plan (known as IDHAP). The IDHAP The Action Plan is an important strategic...
by Policy | May 30, 2023 | News
This afternoon the All Party Group on Homelessness held its Annual General Meeting to elect office bearers and agree a workplan for the upcoming year. The following office bearers were elected for the next year: Chairperson: Ciara Ferguson MLA Vice-Chairperson: Kellie...
by Niall Bakewell | Sep 15, 2022 | News
This morning the Department for Communities published the latest edition of the homelessness bulletin for January to June 2022. The statistics make for grim reading. Here are the headlines: During this period 8120 households presented as homeless. This was an increase...