This Homelessness Awareness Week, we’re asking the public to look beyond the statistics and #SeeThePerson behind every story. #HAW25 #SeeThePerson
This Homelessness Awareness Week, we’re asking the public to look beyond the statistics and #SeeThePerson behind every story.
#HAW25 #SeeThePerson
Housing Rights Homelessness Awareness Week. There is an image of a woman and young child sitting on a fold up bed. There is a blue box with white and black text "Homelessness Awareness Week 1 December - 7 December 2025"
📅1 December marks the start of Homelessness Awareness Week 2025
At Housing Rights, we strengthen the safety nets to keep people in their homes through our advocacy and casework teams, legal team, and Beyond the Gate project.
#SeeThePerson
Homelessness Awareness Week is only a few days away!
Make sure to have a look at our programme outlining all the events taking place during the week: homelessconnect.org/events/
#HAW25 #SeeThePerson
A staggering 4,730 children in Northern Ireland are living in temporary accommodation - a 121% rise since 2019. Childhood homelessness harms health, wellbeing, and education. Please #SeeThePerson and support efforts to help children and families facing homelessness. #HAW25
Homelessness is more than numbers or labels. This Homelessness Awareness Week (1–7 Dec), let’s #SeeThePerson behind every statistic - real people with hopes, challenges, and potential.
Homeless Connect in person course on 18 November, (Belfast) is 'Effective Conversations to Reduce Alcohol and Drug Related harm'. This course will increase staff confidence in managing alcohol and/or drug related situations safely. Fee:£135 (member); £165 (non-member)
Book today bit.ly/47m4c4V
In CT Brief, Nicola McCrudden, CEO of Homeless Connect, explores what’s driving Northern Ireland’s homelessness crisis –
and how prevention and collaboration can build a better system. Read here: www.campbelltickell.com/ctbrief/issu...
On 25 Sept, join our free webinar to learn how your charity, school, or community group can access surplus food through FareShare.
Support your services, cut costs, and help feed vulnerable people across NI.
Register here 👉 homelessconnect.org/event/feedin...
Urgent need for additional funding for social housing provision as NI homelessness numbers continue to spiral upwards - viewdigital.org/urgent-need-...
The housing crisis in NI is worsening, with over 32,000 households now facing homelessness, up 136% in the last decade. Without urgent funding for social housing, more families will be left behind.
Full statement from Homeless Connect: bit.ly/41iUnm9
🚨 The NI Homelessness Conference 2025 tackles some of the biggest issues facing our sector:
⚕️Overdose Prevention Facilities
🏡Housing allocations reform
🧔♀️Violence against women & girls
📦Migration & homelessness in Europe
Book tickets @HomelessConnect
9 Oct | Belfast | homelessconnect.org
Fantastic and often ground breaking work. Thank you Depaul staff both past and present 👏
Our Head of Policy and Programmes @markbaillie89.bsky.social took a visit to the Crossfire Trust this afternoon. It was fantastic to meet the team and hear about the compassionate support they provide in Darkley in Armagh.
You can find out more about the Trust here- www.crossfiretrust.net
Homeless Connect is made up of over forty member organisations across NI. These organisations are of different shapes and sizes but are all united by the same goal- ending homelessness here.
Join us on the journey to end homelessness.
homelessconnect.org/membership/
We have submitted our response to Ciara Ferugson MLA's consultation on unfair letting agent fees. You can read what we had to say here- homelessconnect.org/unfair-letti...
Last week the Housing Executive published the latest 'Performance of the Rental Market in NI' report produced by Ulster University. The report contains a wide range of insights into the increasing affordability challenges facing many renters in NI 1/4 🧵
www.nihe.gov.uk/search/redir...
Last week the NI Frontline Network held a networking event for floating support staff working in greater Belfast. We had participants at different stages of their career coming together to share their experiences and learn more about how they can best support folks they are working to support.
NI Audit Office report on #homelessness is very helpful with startling facts that might come as a surprise to some. Reducing hotel/B&B use is a must for obvious reasons and rebalancing budgets to focus on prevention and co-ordinated support is the way forward, along with social housing building.
Our Head of Policy and Programmes @markbaillie89.bsky.social was on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme this morning responding to the @niauditoffice.bsky.social report on homelessness in NI. You can listen to the full interview here- www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... starting at 1:36:40
Our CEO @nicolamccrudden.bsky.social is quoted today on @irishtimes.com and on BBC News NI responding to the publication of the @niauditoffice.bsky.social report on homelessness in NI. See links below:
BBC News NI: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Irish Times: www.irishtimes.com/.../norths-h...
Our Head of Policy @markbaillie89.bsky.social was in the @belfasttelegraph.co.uk yesterday commenting on the budgetary constraints facing the Department for Communities in 2025/6 when it comes to building new social homes
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
Our Head of Policy @markbaillie89.bsky.social is in a piece by @grainnecuffe.bsky.social in @insidehousing.bsky.social commenting on the need for investment in #socialhousing to meet the target set out in the programme for government #homelessness
www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/housing...
Yesterday the NI Executive published its Programme for Government up to May 2027. You can read our response to what it includes on our website: homelessconnect.org/homeless-con...
Our CEO @nicolamccrudden.bsky.social in @belfastlive.co.uk warning about the impact of the coming rise in employer national insurance contributions on the homelessness sector here #homelessness #nics #vcs
This afternoon #apghomelessness met at the Assembly. The group heard from three Health Inclusion nurses working for the Belfast, South-Eastern and Western Trust on their work supporting people experiencing homelessness. You can read a write up of the meeting here homelessconnect.org/health-inclu...
Really positive response from participants to the Northern Ireland Frontline Network's accredited training sessions on substance use in a homeless setting.
Thanks to @ascertni.bsky.social for leading the sessions!
Housing in Northern Ireland: is housebuilding at a sixty-year low?
Yes, according to evidence.
According to the ONS, the total number of new homes finished in 2023 was 5,380 – the lowest number of completions since 1959, when the figure was 4,890.
Homeless Connect has made a submission to the Justice Committee's Call for Evidence on the Justice Bill. Our submission focuses on the proposed repeal of the Vagrancy Acts criminalising rough sleeping and begging in NI
homelessconnect.org/submission-o...
