Finding Home: Housing Support Insights

About this episode

This episode discusses the complexities of housing support services provided by the county council, featuring insights from key personnel and success stories from residents.

Helping to provide homes is one of the most important areas of service of any county council. This is a complex and complicated service area where there is a person or family behind every statistic. In this episode Director of Services Fiona Fallon and Housing Settlement Officer Gemma Ryan from talk about their work, the successes and the challenges. We also hear from two people who got their forever homes through different council backed schemes.

People in this episode

Guests: Fiona Fallon, Gemma Ryan

Topics covered

• housing support
• county council
• community services
• success stories
• challenges in housing

Keywords

• housing support
• county council
• Fiona Fallon
• Gemma Ryan
• forever homes
• community services
• housing challenges

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meath County Council

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