Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

However, as housing supply increases, homelessness is increasing. The evidence base from around Europe is that if you improve security for renters and households, you can decrease homelessness because it is the more vulnerable households that become homeless when there is a lack of security. That is what the evidence base says. What is the evidence base for this because we can clearly see that supply is increasing but homelessness is increasing so supply in and of itself without measures around security does not seem to be working in terms of tackling homelessness and in fact homelessness is increasing at the same time as housing supply is increasing? I am all for housing supply increasing but what is the evidence base for saying that this alone will solve the problem?