{"id":690614,"date":"2026-01-12T07:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690614\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:53:14","slug":"almost-5000-vacant-homes-in-belfast-and-derry-could-help-alleviate-housing-crisis-says-mla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690614\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 5,000 vacant homes in Belfast and Derry could help alleviate housing crisis, says MLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Communities Minister has revealed the figures for NI\u2019s two largest cities\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Almost 50,000 people are currently homeless in Northern Ireland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2c5934c2-9ec4-43e9-acd8-43f82f88e706.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Almost 50,000 people are currently homeless in Northern Ireland<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Almost 5,000 vacant homes across Northern Ireland\u2019s two main cities could be used to help alleviate the \u201cworst of the housing crisis\u201d, it has been claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Latest figures from the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) have revealed some 62,314 people are homeless within the region, with 49,588 applicants on the NI Housing Executive (NIHE) waiting list as of last September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Communities Minister has revealed the figures for NI\u2019s two largest cities Almost 50,000 people are currently homeless in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[21747,151210,6333,1300,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-690614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-department-for-communities","9":"tag-gerry-carroll","10":"tag-housing","11":"tag-liam-tunney","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115881050377406929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}