The Hanley-Hand family.
Headed by Sandra (top) and Brendan.
One of three families chronicled in My Homeless Family on RTÉ One tonight at 9.35pm.
Anne Louise Foley writes:
In order to provide unique insight into the experience of families in this situation RTÉ provided three families with cameras to film their experience of being homeless over a three month period in the final months of 2015.
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Should be instructive.
Despair BnB
The true extent on the blushirt war on the poor revealed. I see that inda wants an american tax regime, no doubt to ensure that it benefits the rich and increases the gap between them and the poor.
presumably they won’t address the thousands of people who turn down accommodation offers.
whatever happened to yer one “living in her car” – as reported by Ireland’s answer to Scott Templeton
If someone is in a position to turn down accommodation, are they homeless? They may be on the housing waiting list, but not homeless e.g. in private rented accommodation.
If someone is in a BnB or hotel, they are sheltered but they are homeless. Whole families in one room is something that we should have left behind, like tenements.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at here?
There was a programme on RTE about social housing a few years ago. It featured a few people who were on the social housing waiting list and had been offered places but had turned them down. It took quite a nuanced look at their situations and their reasons for turning offers down, which unsurprisingly are never as clear cut as some would have you believe. I.e. “I want a bigger, nicer house; this one isn’t good enough”.
There was one woman who turned a place down because it didn’t have a balcony or any outdoor space and she desperately wanted somewhere to put her daughter’s plants because her daughter had died and they were all she had left of her – it was terribly sad. There was another woman who had serious medical problems and was blind and she had to turn places down because they were too far from hospital or there were too many stairs. People’s lives are complex.
The clip shows non homeless people.
If you are in a temporary emergency accommodation in a hotel or BnB, you are homeless.