Homeless figures dip but charity warns of 'alarming rise' in homeless single people
Housing minister Darragh O’Brien said homelessness remains “unacceptably high”.
Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you
Housing minister Darragh O’Brien said homelessness remains “unacceptably high”.
The number of families accessing emergency accommodation has increased to 1,128.
The figures dropped slightly last month compared to July.
It reverses a trend that saw the number of homeless people fall in recent months.
Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien said that the number of people homeless is still “simply too high”.
There are 241 fewer people on the Department of Housing’s homeless list compared with last month.
The number of people homeless in December 2019 dipped below 10,000 before rising above that figure again in January 2020.
6,697 adults and 3,574 children were in emergency accommodation in January.
A total of 10,338 people were in emergency accommodation in August.
10,378 people were recorded in emergency accommodation in April.
There are now collectively 9,724 people living in homeless accommodation across Ireland.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Dáil the figures will show a reduction in the number of families presenting as homeless in Dublin.
A Trinity professor said the recategorisation of homeless figures has “undermined confidence in the data”.
The CSO statisticians will be assisting the department with its housing data, but not homeless figures.
Some local authorities appear to be better than others in terms of sending their numbers to the Department of Housing.
A further 222 families went into emergency accomodation in the past month.
The December figures saw a slight reduction in the number of homeless families.
In the past week the government claimed that the context of a question on homelessness was left out – it wasn’t.
There are still 690 families in hotels, the Minister for Housing said.
Keith and Sinead bought a house at the height of the boom. Nine years later, they’re ‘in limbo’ in the Dublin suburbs.
Meanwhile, Minister Simon Coveney has been highlighting arrangements in place for people who are homeless in the city.