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Gerard’s story

Gerard’s story

UPPER Springfield father-of-one Gerard Burleigh was finally allocated a Housing Executive flat in the Divis area last week after being on the housing waiting list for three years. Gerard said he could only be granted access to his six-year-old daughter if he had two-bedroom accommodation

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Michelle’s story

Michelle’s story

MICHELLE is a 25-year-old mother who has been on the housing waiting list for six years. She did not want to declare herself homeless and move into a hostel, so rents private accommodation that is partly paid for by her housing benefit.

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So many years are wasted by waiting

Leah’s story
LEAH Corr (23) is a mother of a three-old-child and has been on the waiting list for a Housing Executive home for three years. In January she contacted the Andersonstown News along with two of her neighbours – Georgina Lagan and Kelly Duffy

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While families watch and wait, close to 1,000 homes lie empty

THERE are almost 1,000 residential properties in West Belfast lying vacant even as demand for housing rockets towards crisis point. A figure of 986 homes – many of them recession-linked repossessions – was revealed in the Assembly recently by Finance Minister

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3,000-plus and climbing: crush on local housing waiting list worsens

A LOCAL MLA has said the housing crisis is so bad in West Belfast that some people on the housing waiting list are resorting to drastic measures to improve their chances of getting allocated accommodation – including paying dissident paramilitary groups to send them bullets in the post.

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Our Tommy faces fight of his life

A YOUNG West Belfast boxer is facing the fight of his life as he battles to recover from a vicious assault in time for this summer’s Olympics. Lenadoon lad Tommy McCarthy was left hospitalised after he was caught up in a melée at a city centre nightclub.

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