Established as part of the Government strategy on homelessness, the Homeless Agency is responsible for the management and coordination of services to people who are homeless in the Dublin area and for the implementation of agreed action plans which aim to eliminate homelessness in the capital by 2010.

The Agency is a partnership structure, bringing together the voluntary and statutory agencies responsible for planning, funding and delivering services to people who are homeless.

The Agency is at the hub of homeless services: leading them in the implementation of the action plans, providing training, support and information, undertaking research on the nature and extent of homelessness and into best practice in tackling homelessness; developing policy and service development proposals, administering funding to services and monitoring and evaluating those services.