IMPACT is hosting a seminar about housing and homelessness as part of the union’s campaign for adequate housing provision, security of tenure, and an end to the homelessness crisis. The seminar takes place on Thursday 2nd June at IMPACT’s Limerick offices (Roxborough Road) from 6 to 8.30pm.
The seminar will consist of three discussion panels, including expert speakers from Focus Ireland, the Simon Community, Limerick City and County Council and the University of Limerick students’ union.
The union has continued to highlight the ongoing crisis in housing and homelessness since hosting the Roof is a Right public meeting in September 2014. IMPACT’s motion to the ICTU conference in 2015 called for a co-ordinated plan to ensure housing provision ensuring a right to adequate housing provision, regulation of rents through an indexation system, and urgent assistance to homeless services.
Campaigner Erica Fleming will also address the seminar, sharing her personal experience of living long term in a hotel with her young daughter.
IMPACT organiser Joe O’Connor, who is coordinating the event, said urgent solutions were needed. “Citizens have a fundamental human right, not just to a roof or mere shelter, but to a home. We must act immediately to ensure this aspiration becomes a reality for current and future generations of working people, and IMPACT is working with our partners in the National Homeless and Housing Coalition to keep the issue on the national agenda and to promote solutions,” he said.
