Meeting on housing

PEOPLE Before Profit Sligo are organising a Public Meeting: How to solve the Housing Crisis? on Wednesday 31st January at 8pm in the Glasshouse Hotel.

Speakers on the night include Cllr. Gino O’Boyle and General Election Candidate Nigel Gallagher.

Cllr. Gino O’Boyle said “Ireland is facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions, with increasing levels of homelessness, unsustainable rents and overcrowding. While Sligo has over 1000 people on the housing list, there are a only approximately 100 units available. The number of homeless people nationally has more than doubled in the last three years and is now over 8,300.

Nigel Gallagher continued “The Government’s approach is to effectively use the crisis as an opportunity to transfer large amounts of public cash and land to private developers in the hope that they will build housing at the rate required. This approach has not provided a solution.”