A new high of more than 11,600 people including almost 3,500 children were accessing emergency accommodation during the week leading up to Christmas, according to the latest homelessness figures
The numbers went up in a month by 0.8% to 11,632, from the previous record total of 11,542 which was reported in the last week of November 2022, and up by more than 30% on the previous December.
The Department of Housing's just-released homelessness report indicated that 8,190 adults and 3,442 children were in emergency accommodation during the week of 19 December to 25 December last, the latest period for which figures are available.Of the adults in emergency accommodation, 856 were single parents in family units and there were a total of 1,594 families in such properties.
Well over half of the 8,190 adults in emergency accommodation were in the Dublin area - 5,793 - and the same trend was reported for children in emergency accommodation, with 2,543 in Dublin out of the total amount of 3,442 children in emergency accommodation across the State. Meanwhile, Cork city and county accounted for 503 of the total number of adults in emergency accommodation during Christmas week; with 352 in Limerick, 272 in Galway, 205 in county Kildare and 185 in county Meath.
Irish nationals account for 61%, or 4,971 of the adults in emergency accommodation during that week, while people from the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area made up 22% of the total, numbering 1,826.
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