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Ireland
“Homelessness Strategy and
Data: A Two-way Process”
Denis Conlan & Marie Falvey
Housing Division
Department of the Environment, Heritage
and Local Government, Dublin.
Part 1
Background - economy, housing
market, homelessness
GDP - actual & forecast
10
8
6
4
2
0
-2
-4
-6
-8
-10
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009 f
2010 f
2011 f
2012 f
2013 f
House building as % GDP
14.0
residential investment to GDP
long run average
12.0
10.0
8.0
6.0
4.0
2.0
08
20
06
20
04
20
02
20
00
20
98
19
96
19
94
19
92
19
90
19
88
19
86
19
84
19
82
19
80
19
78
19
76
19
74
19
72
19
19
70
0.0
Public Finances – surplus to deficit
6
4
2
% GDP
0
-2
-4
-6
-8
-10
-12
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009 f
2010 f
2011 f
2012 f
2013 f
Homelessness Trends
Dublin Homeless (“Counted In” survey) as % of population
Gross count
 2008: 0.5%
 2005: 0.5%
Excluding long-term & transitional accommodation
 2008: 0.3%
 2005: 0.3%
Rough sleepers
 2009: 98
 2008: 110 (0.009%)
 2005: 185 (0.016%)
2009 homeless funding
accommodation related
 +5.3%
nominal
+
29% weighted (relative to all
housing funding)
 4%
of housing funding (3% 2008)
Homelessness Policy

Homeless Strategy –August 2008

National Implementation Plan - April 2009

New model of Dublin Homeless Services -

New Legislation – July 2009: Homeless Fora
and Action Plans

New “SLI” scheme (Support to Live
June 2009
Independently) - July 2009
Part 2 – Strategy and Data
a two-way process
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Data key to policy, services, monitoring
Progress reports on implementation of
strategy
Strategic approach to data
National Implementation Plan – Data and
Information Strategy
Homelessness Data
Key developments and issues
 MPHASIS
–focus on data, timely in
Irish context
 Current
developments in Ireland:
Homeless Counts
Assessment Criteria
National Client Database
Census enumeration
Homeless Counts
“Counted In”

Special purpose homeless count

Very inclusive

In Dublin since 1999

3 further cities in 2008

3-yearly; annual counts in 2009 and 2010
“Housing Needs Assessment”
homeless category

Part of overall social housing needs

Homelessness a category of social housing need

Only includes those suited to standard social
housing options

2.5% of social housing needs due to
homelessness in 2008 (4.6% in 2005)
“HNA” v “Counted In”

Different figures – misunderstandings
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Different purposes of each survey
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
Scope for more reconciliation and
convergence
Changes to HNA - legislation
Homelessness assessment criteria
 Application
of statutory definition of
homelessness being examined
 Paper
on assessment criteria in
Dublin to promote consistency
 Consider
application nationally
National Client Database
 New
system following review of
LINK: less detail, service provider
data export, regional application
 New
system in Dublin in 2010
 Next
phase – national roll out
National census of population 2011
 Enhanced
coverage of homeless in
2011 census
 Apply
methodologies in Counted In
and rough sleeper counts – maximise
consistency
 Take
account of reconfiguration of
services
Local/regional focus
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Homelessness Action Plans to be
informed by data/evidence review
Monitoring and reporting process
- Service providers to Homeless Forum
– Forum to local authority
– local authority to Department
– Department to CDT, Senior Officials
Group, Cabinet Committee, Parliament
Future data priorities

Homeless Counts:
 further refinement
 assessment criteria guidelines
 Census 2011 homeless data

New client database
 national roll out
 full participation of all services
 quality data, user friendly system, training, etc
Future Data Priorities

Quality of information for policy, funding
and services
– data on use of homeless services
– identification of homeless using mainstream
services
– accurate identification of needs
– those in long term accommodation not
classified homeless

Homeless Strategy implementation
 local Action Plans – data quality
 monitoring and reporting