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Any threat to funding for homeless services for Galway city must be opposed, and candidates owe it to the electorate to make a pledge to fight any cuts to this sector.

As funding cuts continue, homelessness in the Midlands continues to be a growing issue, according to the Midlands Simon Community.

Lack of housing supply, a collapse in the construction industry, increased demand in the rented sector, and the inadequacy of social housing combine to create the “perfect storm”, according to Labour TD for Galway West Derek Nolan, who has published a report showing the unhealthy state of the housing environment in Galway.

This April Standún Spiddal have teamed up with the Galway Simon Community to help raise awareness and funding for homeless people in Galway. For the month of April, they are encouragingpeopletodonateany unwanted or unused clothes. Standún are kicking things off by hosting a coffee morning on Saturday April 5 between 11am and 2pm in aid of the Galway Simon Community at their store, located in the heart of Connemara and just 12 miles from Galway City.

Next Friday April 4, the Midlands Simon Community will hold a bag pack in Tesco stores across the Midlands in aid of homeless services. Volunteers for the Midlands Simon Community are taking over the bag packing in stores in Athlone, Mullingar, Kinnegad, Longford, Tullamore, Birr, and Edenderry. 

A successful personal developement programme designed initially to help the homeless in Galway is now available to the public.

Athlone Institute of Technology has invited Fr Peter McVerry to speak at an event in the college this Monday February 10.

As demand for homeless services increases and funding cuts continue, this time of the year Midlands Simon Community needs your help more than ever.

COPE Galway welcomes the allocation of €30m to the State’s house building programme announced in Budget 2014 and the stated intention to seek public funding to provide “stable homes” for families who are long term homeless.

Midlands Simon Community may be one of the best performing homelessness services in the country but there was no good news when the housing minister Jan O’Sullivan attended their conference recently.