Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 March 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Update on Homelessness: Discussion
Mr. John Durkan:
Apparently, we have 520 Housing First tenancies in Dublin. In itself, as a day-to-day piece, it is huge. The figure has increased on last year. In Dublin city, we reached our target of 80 new Housing First tenancies within a given year. Notwithstanding the complexities that come with that cohort or, indeed, sometimes tenancy breakdown, it is a remarkable achievement in terms of the progress in helping us with rough sleeping and single adult homelessness in emergency accommodation.