A Helping Hand to Exit Homelessness

The Homelight App
The Reason for Homelight
Homeless families in Ireland are having difficulties navigating and communicating with the current accommodation support system. People find it hard to reach or use, and are left in the dark about their application progress. Homelight aims to provide these families with access to the services they need to exit homelessness on their smartphone.

Why Homelight?
Homelight has the Opportunity to Help
9,891
homeless people*
1,778
homeless families*
3,867
homeless children*
*Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government (2018). Homeless Report July 2018.
What is Homelight?
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Benefits of Homelight
Homelight Aims to Improve the Existing Consolidating Services
Simplifies Process
By consolidating the many accommodation services into one app, Homelight makes it easier for users to apply for accommodation and progress further to permanent housing.
Provides Guidance
Homelight guides users through each step of the application for accommodation. It helps users understand and request housing services best suited to their immediate needs.
Empowers Users
By giving more agency to the user, Homelight removes barriers and limits placed on people during the accommodation application process.
Design for Good
Our Roadmap to Ending Homelessness

Our Vision
We endeavour to engage in resolving the growing problem of homelessness in Ireland with Homelight. Its aim is to make registration as homeless and the process of requesting accommodation services simpler for all involved, allowing users to apply for accommodation through the app.
Human-centred, empathic design can be an agent of change and help shed a light on the inequalities in our world. Homelight hopes to be a catalyst to transform systems and services for good.
Do You Want To Support Us?
We are Looking to Realise the Homelight App. Can You help? We are looking for:
- Developers to assist in bringing our prototype into a working application
- People who can work to help implement our app into the current Government system
- Feedback from those who have dealt with homelessness or are still dealing with homelessness
- Anyone who is interested in bringing the app to fruition.