Sir, – Reading of the deaths of 40 people so far this year who were homeless in Dublin makes for sad reading (News, October 22nd).
Some of those people were known to us. In spite of the efforts of so many from the NGO and statutory sector and their families, their lives ended while homeless in our capital city.
This points to the complexities of homelessness, which is so often seen as being just a housing problem alone. This poses challenges, difficult to understand and therefore difficult to address.
May all those who have died now rest in peace and their families be comforted in the knowledge that while they were living, in some cases far from “home”, were in touch with services. – Yours, etc,
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ALICE LEAHY,
Director of Services,
Alice Leahy Trust,
Dublin 8.