{"id":454440,"date":"2026-05-18T06:15:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454440\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T06:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:15:44","slug":"wexford-mother-and-son-moving-from-couch-to-couch-amid-housing-crisis-every-week-im-just-packing-my-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454440\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford mother and son moving from couch to couch amid housing crisis \u2013 \u2018Every week I\u2019m just packing my stuff\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wexford Mother has shared the reality of being houseless while caring for her son with long term illness. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cfda4ea2-7b69-4a33-8e6a-bea3d548a985.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Wexford Mother has shared the reality of being houseless while caring for her son with long term illness. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Wexford mother with a 10-year-old son living with a long-term illness has shared her current living situation, in which she and her son are sleeping on couches, moving from one temporary situation to the next amid the housing crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The mother, who is moving between temporary accommodations in Gorey, Co. Wexford, has asked to remain anonymous to protect the privacy of her son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wexford Mother has shared the reality of being houseless while caring for her son with long term illness.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11711,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-454440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alan-white","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454440","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=454440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}