{"id":411885,"date":"2026-04-22T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411885\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:41:10","slug":"focus-ireland-launch-new-strategic-plan-amid-record-homeless-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411885\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus Ireland Launch New Strategic Plan Amid Record Homeless Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 22 April 2026 14:21\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Daniel Maher\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/60ed5f0c0ad67.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The plan sets out how the organisation will expand the delivery of secure, affordable homes\n        <\/p>\n<p>Focus Ireland today launched its new Joint Strategic Plan 2026 to 2030, Turning the Tide on Homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as there was a record 17,308 people in emergency accommodation in February, including almost 5,500 children, an overall figure that has risen from 8,313 in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy focuses on family homelessness, single people or couples without children, youth homelessness, prevention and economic homelessness and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Focus Ireland and Focus Housing plan to acquire\u00a0or construct 1,000\u00a0additional\u00a0homes over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>They also aim to support 1,930 households out of homelessness into secure new tenancies.<\/p>\n<p>Focus Ireland CEO Pat Dennigan said that homelessness figures will only fall &#8220;if Government matches that effort&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 22 April 2026 14:21 By Daniel Maher The plan sets out how the organisation will expand the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,43],"class_list":["post-411885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kfm","tag-kildare","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}