Eoin O’Sullivan is Professor in Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. Mike Allen is Director of Advocacy, Research and Communications at Focus Ireland. Sarah Sheridan is an Independent Researcher and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin.

'The first book on Irish housing that examines history and policy through the lens of homelessness. A valuable contribution to the Irish housing canon for experts and lay people alike.' Lorcan Sirr, Technological University Dublin

• Introduction: Colonial inheritances1. Poor Laws, the family economy and housing policy, 1922–19482. The end of the Poor Laws, economic development and modernisation, 1948–19633. Housing policy, housing agitation and the emergence of the homelessness sector, 1964–19814. Two housing bills and one act, 1981–19885. From the implications of the Housing Act to local partnerships on homelessness, 1989-19976. A decade of strategies, the Celtic Tiger and austerity, 1997–20117. From austerity to economic recovery, 2011–20168. Homelessness becomes a ‘national crisis’, 2016–20209. Pandemic, migration and a housing crisis, 2020– 202410. Conclusion: Reflections on Homelessness in Ireland

Eoin O’Sullivan is Professor in Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. Mike Allen is Director of Advocacy, Research and Communications at Focus Ireland. Sarah Sheridan is an Independent Researcher and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin.

'The first book on Irish housing that examines history and policy through the lens of homelessness. A valuable contribution to the Irish housing canon for experts and lay people alike.' Lorcan Sirr, Technological University Dublin

• Introduction: Colonial inheritances1. Poor Laws, the family economy and housing policy, 1922–19482. The end of the Poor Laws, economic development and modernisation, 1948–19633. Housing policy, housing agitation and the emergence of the homelessness sector, 1964–19814. Two housing bills and one act, 1981–19885. From the implications of the Housing Act to local partnerships on homelessness, 1989-19976. A decade of strategies, the Celtic Tiger and austerity, 1997–20117. From austerity to economic recovery, 2011–20168. Homelessness becomes a ‘national crisis’, 2016–20209. Pandemic, migration and a housing crisis, 2020– 202410. Conclusion: Reflections on Homelessness in Ireland

Eoin O’Sullivan is Professor in Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. Mike Allen is Director of Advocacy, Research and Communications at Focus Ireland. Sarah Sheridan is an Independent Researcher and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin.

'The first book on Irish housing that examines history and policy through the lens of homelessness. A valuable contribution to the Irish housing canon for experts and lay people alike.' Lorcan Sirr, Technological University Dublin

• Introduction: Colonial inheritances1. Poor Laws, the family economy and housing policy, 1922–19482. The end of the Poor Laws, economic development and modernisation, 1948–19633. Housing policy, housing agitation and the emergence of the homelessness sector, 1964–19814. Two housing bills and one act, 1981–19885. From the implications of the Housing Act to local partnerships on homelessness, 1989-19976. A decade of strategies, the Celtic Tiger and austerity, 1997–20117. From austerity to economic recovery, 2011–20168. Homelessness becomes a ‘national crisis’, 2016–20209. Pandemic, migration and a housing crisis, 2020– 202410. Conclusion: Reflections on Homelessness in Ireland