Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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A new phenomenon of working homeless has appeared. If people are working, they often do not qualify for many of the housing supports available. We need to change policy to ensure that where people's working income is insufficient to meet their accommodation requirements as a result of which they become homeless, there is flexibility in terms of family income supplement, FIS, for example, for people who do not have kids or rent allowance, if people do not satisfy the exact criteria. We need to make changes. People who have kids qualify for FIS and if they are working, this helps them to manage their rent but single people are banjaxed.