The number of people availing of emergency accommodation because they are homeless increased in January 2025 compared to December 2024. The latest Homeless report shows that a total of 15,286 people are using emergency accommodation made up of 10,683 adults and 4,603 children. The number of adults homeless in January is up 329 persons compared to December and the number of children is up by 93.
In county Tipperary there are 74 people in emergency accommodation in January up from 57 in December. County Limerick also shows an increase with 489 people in emergency accommodation up from 455 in December.
The data does not include those who may be sleeping rough, in cars or in overcrowded or insecure accommodation, people in domestic violence refugees or asylum seekers who have not been allocated state accommodation estimated – this latter group is estimated at 3,000 people. In addition the lack of housing is preventing young people from moving out of their family home and may also be preventing couples from starting a family or delaying the opportunity for older people to downsize.
The data shows that 52% of the people in Emergency Accommodation are Irish totalling 5,550 people, 22% are from the UK or the European Economic Area(EEA) totalling 2,316 and 26% totalling 2,817 persons are from outside the EEA.
The Government’s housing delivery target for last year was not met in what was the third year of the Housing For All policy launched in 2021 – the target was 33,450 – the actual delivery was 30,330 a decrease of 6.7% on 2023 and well short of the Government’s claims in Autumn 2024 that 40,000 new homes would be delivered.
