The number of people in emergency accommodation because they are homeless has increased in April compared to March.
The Department of Housing published the April Homeless report on Friday May 30th revealing an increase of 162 persons compared to March 2025. A total of 15,580 adults and children are now in emergency accommodation.
Homeless figures for county Tipperary total 74 persons in April, an increase of one compared to March. In county Limerick, the total number in Emergency Accommodation is 496 a reduction of 19 compared to March.
The national total includes 4,775 children. The total of 15,580 represents an increase of 1,571 compared to April 2024.
The Department provides a breakdown of the nationally of adults in Emergency Accommodation – 52% are Irish equating to 5,593 people, 21 % or 2,247 have a nationality listed as the UK or another European Economic Area(EEA) country and 27% or 2,965 are from a country outside the EEA.
The total does not include people who may be sleeping rough or sleeping in cars or overcrowded or insecure accommodation.
The Government says increasing housing supply is the top priority and that the National Development Plan is to ensure investment is allocated to deliver 300,000 new homes by 2030. An updated Housing Policy is to be published by the Government in July. The delivery of new homes in 2024 did not meet the Housing for All Policy target of 33.450 and the ESRI is forecasting that output in 2025 and 2026 will be in the range of 34,000 to 37,000 homes per annum.
