Stacey Boyd: 'You just don’t know where you’re going to be put, but it has to be done.' Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
A little girl living in emergency accommodation in Dublin with her mother and two sisters wrote to Santa asking for a house this Christmas.
“No child should ever have to wish for a house off Santy. That just shows how unstable the situation is,” her mother Stacey Boyd (26) says.
Boyd and her three daughters Millie-Jae (10), Harper (7) and Priya (2) will be spending Christmas in emergency accommodation this year.
The family is one of thousands facing the same predicament. Latest figures show there are 16,766 people currently living in hostels, family hubs or other types of temporary accommodation.
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