After Kevin Barry House killing, where now for Housing First policy to move people off streets?

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The idea was to find a different path out of homelessness for significant numbers who appeared to be “stuck” in the system, he told The Irish Times. It was initially “controversial” as it reversed the traditional approach of offering housing only after someone was clean and sober. Local residents had repeatedly complained to Dublin City Council , which owned the property, about large groups of people coming and going from the flat. For more than a year neighbours had reported problems with drug dealing, drug use, violent fights, loud parties and other antisocial behaviour.

While more than 700 homeless adults had been accommodated under Housing First in recent years, the Government plans to create 1,300 more tenancies over the next five years. One major challenge was the serious lack of one-bed housing in the country, but overall the senior official said Housing First was making a real difference: “It’s going in the right direction. The numbers don’t lie.”

“Learning how to ‘manage the door’ is a really important part of the process, which can take time. You have to have the right to fail, or make bad choices with consequences and learn from our consequences,” Dr Greenwood said. Peter McVerry from the Peter McVerry Trust. The flat where Anthony Dempsey's body was found was managed by the trust. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Photos

Since July, staff from the Peter McVerry Trust had been in discussions with the tenant in Kevin Barry House encouraging them to surrender the property. Four former Housing First workers in the trust who spoke to The Irish Times complained staff were often dealing with “huge caseloads” that prevented full inspections of properties.

One neighbour said the property ‘turned into a crack den within weeks’ of the tenant moving in, but claimed Dublin City Council and the McVerry Trust ‘did nothing’ in response “It all came to a head when there was a stabbing in the flat about four weeks ago. There was pandemonium in the block,” the resident said. Afterwards the tenant was moved, with residents now “terrified” of dealing with similar tenancies in future. ]

Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)

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