Ireland’s homelessness and housing crisis has truly reached breaking point, prompting the Simon Communities of Ireland to gather for emergency talks today.
Latest figures place the number of people living in emergency accommodation at nearly 5,000, including more than a thousand children.
According to a spokesperson: “What we are seeing is that the situation is getting worse every single day.
“We’ve got 707 families trapped in emergency accommodation right now, nearly 1,500 children. We also have 2,400 adults without dependents stuck in emergency accommodation.
“These figures don’t take rough sleepers into account, people staying with friends and relatives, staying in squats, the hidden homeless, so we know that this is a very big crisis.”