Evicted single mother urges Stormont to build houses on vacant site

An evicted single mother of four has urged the Northern Irish government to intervene to see housing built on the largest publicly owned vacant site in the city of Belfast.

Marwa Basi and her children are currently living on Northern Ireland’s north coast after having been evicted in Belfast, and undertake five-hour round trips every day for school and training.

A campaign group has said she is just one of thousands on the waiting list for a home in Belfast while the 25-acre site, which previously hosted Mackie’s factory, lies empty.

Figures from March 2024 indicate there are more than 86,000 people (more than 47,000 households) on the housing waiting list in Northern Ireland, and more than 5,000 children living in homeless households in Belfast alone.

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