Threshold campaigns for right to housing
Housing charity Threshhold has called on the Government to introduce a legal right to housing for all Irish citizens.
Threshold director Kieran Murphy said: "What the Government needs to do now is to grant a right to housing and to confidently assert that they’re going to be able to meet the housing needs of homeless people over the next number of years."
Mr Murphy said a legal right to housing would mean citizens can take the Government to court if it fails to meet their housing needs.
He was speaking ahead of a Threshold conference aimed at discussing a framework for the implementation of a basic right to housing.
