Venue: The Bank at The Digital Hub, James’s Street, Dublin 8, D08 C2PR

Focus Ireland – Launch Online Archive of Historic Homeless Strategy Documents

Speakers: Mike Allen and Eoin O’Sullivan (Focus Ireland)

Why do we not look to policies from the past when designing and delivering new plans?

Since 2000, the Irish Government has published a series of 6 strategies to tackle homelessness. The successes, failure, lessons, and implementation plans from these have been evaluated, critiqued, and monitored in numerous reports. However, due to the Government policy of not archiving key documents, all this innovation and learning has become largely inaccessible to those currently working to reduce and end homelessness. In our new ‘Homeless Policy Archive Hub’, Focus Ireland aims to make key documents from each of the strategic phases available for researchers and the policymakers of today. Our hope is that by making these policies easily available, those advocating and working to end homelessness can explore what policies have been implemented before, how they were implemented and how we can build on the work of previous strategies.