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*Child Homelessness
*Pensioners Homeless
*Disability homelessness
*Deaths on the Streets
*Rip off rent
*Unaffordable HomesPlease, join the #MyNameis campaign #ListenLeo#MondayMotivation #cblive #liveline pic.twitter.com/PPXZIVrbGD
— Mick Caul (@caulmick) November 5, 2018
Tonight.
At 8pm.
On Twitter.
The #MyNameIs campaign is calling on supporters to join their Twitter Storm to highlight the issues around homelessness and the chronic lack of housing.
The most recent Department of Housing figures showed there were 5,869 adults, 1,753 families and 3,829 children – a total of 9,698 individuals – staying in State-funded emergency accommodation in the final week of September last.
This was an increase of 171 individuals – 35 adults and 136 children.
Meanwhile…
The Raise the Roof rally in Dublin on October 3
On Friday, December 1.
At the Garden of Remembrance, Dublin 1, at 2pm.
A National Housing Demonstration will be held in Dublin, organised by the the National Homeless and Housing Coalition, who say:
After the massive success of the #RaiseTheRoof rally on October 3rd, when we had 12,000 on the streets outside Dáil Éireann, the National Homeless and Housing Coalition have called a national demonstration on the housing crisis to take place on December 1st at 2pm.
Huge momentum is building and grass roots groups campaigning, providing front-line services and advocating for action on the housing crisis, are calling for water style demonstrations to put pressure on the government.
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