A Raise the Roof rally is set to take place in Dublin this weekend to support the campaign and protest the ongoing housing emergency.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is urging members to attend the event on Saturday 19 May at Parnell Square at 1pm.

As part of the Raise the Roof campaign, Congress has put forward clear solutions to this crisis, such as the urgent need to build more public housing and to create a legal right to housing, which already exists in some 80 countries worldwide. A petition in support of the Right to Housing is available here.

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General Secretary Patricia King said: "Huge numbers of young workers and their families now find themselves locked out of the housing market, unable to either buy or rent an affordable place to live. Housing is no longer seen as a human right but as a plaything of speculators and developers.

"Therefore I believe it is imperative that affiliate unions do their utmost to ensure we have as many members as possible on the May 18 rally to send a clear signal to the government that a radical shift in housing policy is needed in order to bring this intolerable situation to an end."

(CM/JG)