Homeless Figures in Dublin

Ohyeah

The new figures from the Homeless Agency made good headlines today. Homeless down one fifth in Dublin in two years..well that is good news and Minister Ahern was delighted yesterday

However nearly all the independent homeless groups have said that the figures do not reflect reality, that they are using figures that are dodgy.
One of the homeless groups on Matt Cooper yesterday said it was just politics in the run up to the General Election. :mad:

Fr Peter McVerry a guy who should know told Daily Ireland he has seen no decrease in the number of homeless people on the streets of Dublin see
http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_ticket=9NTHLXD4YGSGX4TFINNADY7BZKLAFUUGUXRKKUPBENVI9LLDN32STRRIVON9ANVRARKACJ5L5QRFK12D9NTGNOM9CHUT1YQFIRY4S0SEAOYBCLWFURUQCB99ANWR9LLGGGSG00QFIRYS22H8VV8NR&_scope=DailyIreland/Content/News&id=30623&opp=1

what do people think, can the figures be trusted? From my own point of view I think there seems to be MORE much more in fact homeless people on the streets of Dublin now than three of four years ago:eek:

The_Minister

I actually thought that the number had gone down. I only saw three in town yesterday.

John_C

Both the government and the charities have a vested interest si I wouldn't trust either.

DadaKopf

I actually thought that the number had gone down. I only saw three in town yesterday.

Could just mean they're being moved on from where you usually walk.

TempestSabre

I see about the same around I always do.

Hard to trust any figures these days unless they tell you how they were achieved and they bear some correlation to other surveys.

RedPlanet

John_C wrote:

Both the government and the charities have a vested interest si I wouldn't trust either.

Yeah they probably do, but what do you think is vested interest of charities?
To be able to do more charitable work?
Provide a better quality of charity?

I'm sticking with them on this one.

bk

RedPlanet wrote:

Yeah they probably do, but what do you think is vested interest of charities?
To be able to do more charitable work?
Provide a better quality of charity?

I'm sticking with them on this one.

Their vested interest would be to keep up funding. These charties get a lot of money from the government, if homeless numbers are down, then the government gives them less money.