Record level of children and adults in emergency accommodation in Ireland

A record number of 13,841 people were accessing emergency homeless accommodation by the end of February, according to the latest figures.The record number of children are spread across 1,994 families.The Department of Housing data shows that 9,671 adults were accessing emergency accommodation managed by local authorities during the last full week of February.Almost 6,000 men and more than 3,700 women were accessing emergency accommodation during that period.

Focus Ireland CEO Pat Dennigan said: “There are solutions in the short, medium, and long term to this crisis.He added: “With just less than 2,000 families in emergency accommodation the number of new homes required to end this crisis for families in long-term homelessness is not impossible to deliver and this should be a real priority.”

Wayne Stanley, executive director of the Simon Communities of Ireland, said: ”The answer to this crisis lies in the construction of more social and affordable housing and more supports to those at risk of homelessness.

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