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# Emergency Accommodation

All time
The number of people who are homeless has risen to over 10,000 again
27 Feb 2020
16.0k
51
19 Dublin hotels received over €1 million each for accommodating homeless people in 2019
21 Feb 2020
32.0k
36
Families should no longer be provided with one-night emergency accommodation, committee will recommend
14 Nov 2019
9.9k
4
State paying hotels and guesthouses €462,000 per week to accommodate asylum seekers
16 Oct 2019
23.5k
37
'I don't want to see these people on our streets': Charlie Flanagan admits 'crisis' in asylum seeker accommodation
23 Sep 2019
28.2k
89
Emergency accommodation for asylum seekers costs three times more than Direct Provision centres
27 Aug 2019
28.5k
71
Cockroaches, mould and aggressive staff: Documents convey reality of life in homeless accommodation
24 Aug 2019
24.5k
36
Asylum seekers forced to wash clothes in sinks at Dublin hotel
19 Aug 2019
35.8k
110
'There is no holiday from homelessness': Government criticised as figures reach 10,000 for fifth month
Updated 31 Jul 2019
16.4k
97
Minister for Housing accepts 'need to do more' as latest figures show record levels of homelessness
Updated 29 May 2019
17.3k
83
There are now over 10,300 people homeless in Ireland, a new record high
30 Apr 2019
19.2k
80
DCC's Keegan says criticism 'near hysterical' over him calling homeless services 'attractive' option
27 Apr 2019
32.8k
107
'A generation locked out': The families spending more than two years in emergency accommodation
17 Mar 2019
15.9k
26
Sean O'Casey's last home set to be used as homeless accommodation
14 Mar 2019
16.1k
20
'A national trauma': There are now 9,987 people living in homeless accommodation in Ireland
27 Feb 2019
13.2k
51
The government got an 'F' from 100 organisations over how it's handling child and family homelessness
27 Feb 2019
15.4k
26
Private company paid €1.6 million in 4 months to find emergency accommodation for asylum seekers
13 Feb 2019
35.8k
53
Significant increase in homeless children attending Temple Street hospital last year
Updated 22 Jan 2019
15.0k
41
'He chose to die at home. The hostel was his home': Lynn Ruane on hidden health problems in homelessness
Lynn Ruane
14 Oct 2018
22.5k
13
Homeless accommodation: Staff complaints detail racial abuse, drug use, threatening behaviour
13 Oct 2018
24.0k
44
Bed bugs, used needles and rat droppings - life inside homeless accommodation
27 Aug 2018
13.8k
33
Drug-taking, violence and self-harming - what users of emergency accommodation witness at night
23 Aug 2018
10.9k
12
Dermot Bannon: 'People could end up stuck in modular homes for ten years'
18 Aug 2018
33.1k
61
Residents happy with rapid-build homes - but some still feel a prevailing sense of insecurity
10 Jul 2018
24.0k
36
Ombudsman sounds warning about 'invisible' homeless children and family hubs
13 Jun 2018
9.2k
15
If a family are living in accommodation paid for through homeless funding, does that make them homeless?
5 May 2018
14.0k
56
'It's a moral shame': Another 188 children have become homeless since the start of the year
27 Feb 2018
8.3k
57
Loneliness, mental health, separation: How homelessness affects children later in life
1 Jan 2018
12.5k
14
Focus Ireland provided 145 homes to homeless couples, families and individuals this year
28 Dec 2017
9.0k
29
'It's deeply, deeply depressing': There are still over 3,300 children homeless in Ireland
19 Dec 2017
14.2k
120
Peter McVerry Trust to provide new accommodation for 100 people and 24 families before Christmas
16 Dec 2017
11.9k
63
Murphy hails 'progress' housing people but numbers in emergency accommodation hit record levels
27 Oct 2017
6.5k
43
'The impact on children is very severe': 18 babies were born into a homeless charity's services last year
5 Sep 2017
7.1k
20
'Doing everything we can': Minister to lead emergency housing summit after death of two homeless people
1 Sep 2017
19.6k
77
Families forced to leave homes after burst pipe causes flooding, sinkhole
11 Aug 2017
26.2k
23
Census 2016: Nearly one in five homeless adults have a job
10 Aug 2017
16.6k
50
'A loss of dignity': Homeless children are living on takeaways and dining on the floor
9 Aug 2017
12.5k
113
Cockroaches, mould and chronic drug abuse in front of children - life in homeless accommodation
24 Jul 2017
13.6k
31
'No place to breathe, no place to think': Family living in emergency accommodation for over 2 years
6 Jul 2017
25.9k
Coveney's aim for no homeless families in hotels by July? Not a chance says McVerry
28 May 2017
10.7k
42
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