Almost 500 Cork people saved from being homeless between July and September

Nearly 500 Cork people were saved from homelessness from July to September of this year, according to national housing charity Threshold’s latest Impact Report.

Threshold supported 1,509 Cork households in Q3 of 2025, and prevented 215 households, made up of 278 adults and 169 children, from becoming homeless.

Nationally, of the new households that contacted Threshold from July to September, 2,160 were at risk of homelessness, up 22.8% from the same period last year. As in previous quarters, most of these renters were at risk of homelessness because their landlord wished to sell their home.

Last month, the charity revealed that out of 3,275 households it had worked with in Cork county and city in 2025, 54% were at risk of homelessness, for reasons that included tenancy terminations.

Tenancy termination continued to be the top issue for Threshold’s clients in Q3 this year, accounting for more than one in three queries.

Case study 

The charity recently shared a case study of a Cork woman, Niamh, whose name had been changed.

The woman got in touch with Threshold after she received a notice of termination from her landlord.

“As mum to a child with special needs, and having recently had a serious surgery herself, the eviction notice came as a big shock, with no previous warning,” Threshold said.

After reaching out to Threshold, the tenant spoke to Ciara, assistant manager in the southern region, who told her the eviction notice was not compliant with the law as it did not include a statutory declaration. She was relieved and stayed on in the house. A short while later, she was issued with a second eviction notice by her landlord, which now had the correct paperwork and was thus valid.

The Cork woman’s Threshold adviser was able to support her and her child by issuing a letter to her local council, so they would know she was being legally evicted and could then try to assist her with prioritising her family on the housing list.

Eviction notice

“As the eviction notice was now valid, it was a really worrying time for ‘Niamh’, who was still in limbo knowing that her landlord could legally evict her,” the spokesperson said, but Threshold advised her that the landlord couldn’t physically remove her and her family from the property ahead of the terms of the eviction notice, and would need to go through the correct procedures by contacting the Residential Tenancies Board.

“Aware of her rights, ‘Niamh’ was able to work with her landlord to stay until she was able to secure social housing.”