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028 90 232882
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0800 171 2222
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What is Homelessness?
What is homelessness?
How Many?
Reasons?
What is homelessness?
- Having no permanent home
- Staying with friends or relatives as emergency accommodation
- Staying in temporary accommodation such as a bed and breakfast, a hostel or squat
- Sleeping rough
How Many?
The Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) collects statistics on those who apply to it for assistance under the homelessness legislation.
Reasons?
Factors that can cause homelessness are
- Structural e.g. shortage of affordable housing, low income and poverty.
- Institutional e.g. having been in care or in the armed forces.
- Family background e.g. experience of family homelessness in childhood, family breakdown and disputes, sexual or physical abuse in childhood or adolescence, having parents with drug or alcohol problems.
- Individual e.g. using drink or drugs at an early stage, getting involved with crime at an early stage, lack of qualifications, persistent truancy or exclusion from school, lack of social support networks.
Personal events that can happen in an indivduals life and cause homelessness can be:
- Financial crisis/debt.
- Eviction from owned or rented home.
- Householders no longer willing / able to share their home.
- Leaving the parental home in a crisis.
- Deterioration in mental health or increase in alcohol or drug misuse.
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Every penny raised will help us support individuals and families who are at risk of becoming homeless or who are homeless in Northern Ireland. It will also allow us to expand our services. To donate dial 028 90 232882 or click on the button below.
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