SOCIAL HOUSING FOCUS OF MAJOR CITY CONFERENCE

Date Published: 27-Sep-2011

A major conference on the increased demand for social housing will begin in Galway tomorrow. [28/9]

Almost 100 thousand households in Ireland are now in need of housing, an increase of 75 percent over the past 3 years.

That's according to the Irish Council for Social Housing, which is hosting the two-day conference at the Galway Bay Hotel in Salthill from tomorrow.

In Galway city, there has been a 100 percent increase in the demand for social housing since 2008.