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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.

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

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

A cap on the interest that can be charged by moneylenders in Ireland must be introduced by the Central Bank in order to stop them “preying on the poor”.

Responding to the lasted Central Bank report on the licensed money lending industry, Sinn Féin Castlebar town councillor Therese Ruane has called for action to be taken to curb the interest rates charged by these services, which according to her are “making exorbitant profits on the backs of hard pressed families”.

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.

Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane, has welcomed the move by Electric Ireland to freeze its prices until January 2014 but warns that more needs to be done to tackle fuel poverty. She is calling on Labour to deliver on their party's promise to tackle fuel poverty and to use Budget 2014 to give some hope to families to make ends meet.

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.

As part of Social Inclusion Week for Galway City, COPE Galway Resettlement and Tenancy Service will launch its Community Garden at the Towards Independence Project on the Dyke Road at 12 o’clock on Tuesday next October 15.