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Over-reliance on an increasingly unaffordable private rental market, and a shortage of new housing units, are key factors contributing to homelessness in Galway, an EU advisory body has been told.

More than 200 Galway children will spend this Christmas in emergency homeless accommodation provided by COPE Galway, at the end of a year in which 527 children and 868 adults were supported by Galway Simon.

The Christmas season is always a poignant time for services supporting people who are homeless. A time of togetherness that also leaves many feeling lonely. It can be a particularly challenging time for people who cannot be with family, where connections have been lost or were never there. It is extraordinarily difficult where people do not have a home of their own, or where their home is at risk. All year round, Galway Simon Community work with people in these circumstances, and sadly we are working with more and more people every year.

Homelessness and housing charity Galway Simon Community has issued an urgent appeal ahead of Christmas asking people to support them in helping to prevent the trauma of homelessness for those across Galway, Mayo and Roscommon at risk of losing their home.

Some 50 business leaders have signed up to take part in this year's COPE Galway Sleep Out, now in its 10th year.

Homelessness and housing charity Galway Simon Community launched its 2020 Annual Report revealing that the organisation supported 646 local households last year, a total of 1,216 individuals, through their Homelessness Prevention and Housing Services.

Focus Ireland and Bord Gáis Energy call on the nation to sign up and sleep out to help end family homelessness.

The Simon Communities of Ireland’s has published two research reports: ‘The Experiences of Simon Community Service Users During the Pandemic’ and ‘Sustaining the Accelerant?: The response of Simon Communities to Four Waves of the Covid-19 Pandemic’.

With 400 people seeking accommodation for homeless on one night last week, COPE Galway has set out a number of measures in their submission on the upcoming Budget 2022 to the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure to respond to the needs of the people they support.,

The Simon Communities of Ireland have launched this year’s Simon Week, with a call to support the Simon Bill.