The Homeless Agency is responsible for the planning, co-ordination and administration of funding in relation to the provision of quality services to people who are homeless in the Dublin area and for the development of responses to prevent homelessness.
Pathway to Home model for Dublin
Work is continuing on the Pathway to Home model. The primary objective of the Pathway to Home model is to ensure that long-term homelessness and the need to for people to sleep rough is eliminated in Dublin. The Homeless Agency Partnership has set a target of 1,000 tenancies to be provided by 2009 through leasing arrangements from the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (DoEHLG), local authority tenancies and through the reconfiguration of current resources and services. The DoEHLG have finalised details on the Support to Live Independently scheme (SLI); this new scheme involves the provision of appropriate mainstream housing and housing support to enable homeless households to progress to independent living.