NOVAS is a voluntary organisation working with single adults, families and children who are disadvantaged and socially excluded; primarily those who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. We are also an Approved Housing Body who provide social housing for low-income families and single adults in local communities throughout Ireland. We offer bespoke, client-centred services, based on empirical evidence of fifteen years’ experience of working with people who are homeless in Ireland. We work with some of society’s most marginalised individuals and believe everyone is entitled to a home.

During 2023 we saw an extraordinary rise in presentations to our Out-of-Hours service in Limerick city, increasing from 1,130 to 2,855 across the twelve month period. Many of these presentations continued throughout the night, as people had nowhere else to go.