Homeless figures hit record high in December

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.

Online fakenews is an existential threat to democracy - not because most people believe bogus content, but because of the corrosive effect it has on trust among citizens and their faith in institutions representing them! gaslighting Coercivecontrol irishmedia

Ah but I'm far right for wanting our own housing crisis solved before we continuously allow unvetted males with no documentation into the country

FF and FG have plenty of money for banks, covid, 4 and 5 star hotels for immigrants, modular houses. Nothing for desperate Irish people

I can’t understand the mindset of people protesting to allow unvetted migrants to enter the country when this is going on. Make it make sense.

Landlords should charge tenants 100% of their wages. Tenant serfs are already handing over 70% of their wages to a lazy landlord. FG privatisation legacy. GetAJobLandlords PayForYourOwnSecondHome HomeOwnershipGone

Disgusting that this is happening and has been going on now for years.. no child should have to sleep in a tent on the side of the road.

Heart breaking in this day & age .. but not just in Ireland 😢

all the beds have been taken by algerians and somalians

Will somebody please think of the poor Africans like this we need to house, feed, pay and support the rest of their lives.

If you a real news station go ask the housing minister what 💩 he was talking yesterday I won’t hold my breath

Nothing to see here, ain't that right lads LeoVaradkar MichealMartinTD

But sinnfeinireland

Irish Government:

Surely, this isn't an abject failure of FineGael and FiannaFail and free market politics?

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