March For The Homeless 2015 Dublin

March For The Homeless 2015 is a protest/march originally founded by Darren Bradley in Dublin,Ireland. The protest is taking place on the 15th of April 2015 in Ireland, England, Scotland, USA and Canada. This protest was set up to raise awareness of the homeless situation in our countries and to try force our governments to do something about it. This is a non profit organization if you wish to make a donation to support the Dublin Simon Community please visit our Fundraising page: http://www.mycharity.ie/event/marchforthehomeless2015 You can donate anything you can spare it all adds up. If you would like to run a fundraiser for us or get sponsorship cards to sleep out in Dublin all in aid of Dublin Simon please contact us for more info. ---------------------------------------------------- Focus Ireland estimates that there are up to 5,000 people at any one time who are homeless in Ireland. The homeless crisis in Ireland is getting worse with one family losing their home in the capital every single day. There are over 90,000 households on the social housing waiting list a figure that is growing rapidly. In the budget 2015 an increase of €10 million was allocated directly to provide accommodation and services to the homeless and a further investment of €1.5 billion from Exchequer funds for social housing from 2015 to 2017. This is expected to deliver 2,500 social housing units in 2015 and 6,700 units by 2017. An additional 2000 units could be provided by 2018 through a further €400 million assigned to approved housing bodies via an off-balance sheet finance vehicle. Although this news is welcomed Peter McVenna from The Irish Times believes: ‘It will be 2051 before the last person on the current housing waiting list is offered accommodation’. In my opinion providing this funding is only going to deal with half the problem. The biggest problem is now. Rent prices have increased so much over the last 18 months and the Rent Allowance Maximum Limits are too low for people to rent the properties. Even if the limit meets the rent cost it has become increasingly hard to find a landlord that will accept rent allowance tenants. This housing shortage coupled with rent increases is forcing people even families into homelessness. Something needs to be done now to prevent people in this situation from being at risk of homelessness, by 2017 is just not good enough and even by then it will only provide 10000 households. With the housing list figure at 90000 I can agree with Peter. It will take a long time before housing is provided to these people. A more realistic temporary solution must be provided because if it is not I hate to see the figures next year. ---------------------------------------------------- SO PLEASE INVITE ALL YOUR FRIENDS,FAMILY,WHOEVER ALL IS WELCOME We are also having a sleep outside the Dail on the night of the protest/march if you will be attending the sleep out outside the Dail please bring your sleeping bag,blankets,candle and if you have a guitar please bring it along with you!! this is a peaceful protest in order to help the homeless so please bring any spare sleeping bags,blankets,food,hats,glove's anything you may thing the homeless might need bring along with you cause there will be homeless people there with us so please bring something, anything! please make a sign what you feel about homelessness in Ireland.the more people on the sleep out and the protest/march the better out come we will get so please tell everybody and please be good its a peaceful protest not an angry protest its about trying to stop the deaths on our streets and future deaths from homelessness in a dignified way. Thank you for your support so far its so great that its gone across seas and they're joining in also :D:D We can succeed if WE stand together this is not just for homeless its for our kids and the people at risk of homelessness in the future and now, So they don't grow up on the street cause the rent was to high!! so invite your friends and family all is welcome and anyone else you can thank you !! THIS COULD BE ANY OF YOU'S We will be protesting and marching to the Dail this protest/march is for the homeless and people who are at risk of being homeless so please show your support and come along WE need to stand together if we want to beat this crisis so please share and join if you are attending we are meeting at central bank and marching to the Dail and protesting! The Dail will be Open all day till 9:30 pm so please come along bring everybody you can with you the more people the bigger the BANG please invite everybody @[null:#marchforthehomeless] This is the main page for the founder of march for the homeless 2015 facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/March-for-the-Homeless-2015/766626843416968 Website: @[NjQyMTgzOTU5MjA4MTA3Omh0dHBzXGEvL21hcmNoZm9ydGhlaG9tZWxlc3MyMDE1LndvcmRwcmVzcy5jb20vOjo=:https://marchforthehomeless2015.wordpress.com/]