Union backs homelessness protest
by Bernard Harbor
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IMPACT general secretary Shay Cody has written to the union’s branches, urging them to support tomorrow’s ‘housing is a human right’ protest. The event, which is organised by the National Homeless and Housing Coalition, sets off from Dublin’s Custom House at 2pm on Saturday 28th May.
The protest is being supported by homelessness charities, along with IMPACT and other union organisations like SIPTU and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
Last week, IMPACT’s biennial delegate conference reasserted the union’s support for urgent solutions to the homelessness crisis. The union has been campaigning on the issue since its September 2015 homelessness conference, 'A Roof Is a Right.’
At last year's ICTU conference, IMPACT proposed a motion calling for a range of measures to tackle the housing crisis, including the regulation of rents through an indexation system similar to those in other European countries.
Saturday’s protest will put pressure on the new Government to implement these and other policies to deal with homelessness.
You can also support the protest on Facebook.
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