Dublin 25th August 2023: As the July Homeless Report is launched, Dublin Simon Community is disappointed to mark another month passing with an increase in the number of people in emergency accommodation nationally, now standing at 12,847. In Dublin 9,484 adults and children were housed in emergency accommodation in July, an increase of just over […]
June 2023 Homeless Figures Statement “There were 9,265 people in emergency accommodation in Dublin in June, representing a 1% increase on the previous month and a 23% increase over the past 12 months. These latest figures are deeply confronting. “While we acknowledge the significant efforts being made to remedy the insufficient supply of housing, including […]
Dublin Simon CEO Catherine Kenny responds to the May 2023 Homeless Report figures released on Friday the 30th of June. There were 9,160 people in emergency accommodation in Dublin in May, representing a 23% increase over the past 12 months. As we revealed earlier this week, on one night in June, 25% of Dublin Simon’s emergency […]
April 2023 Homeless Figures Statement Dublin is bearing the brunt of the homelessness and housing crisis, with 9,010 people in emergency accommodation in April, representing a 3% increase on the previous month and a 25% increase over the past 12 months. Last week, the Dublin Simon Outreach team logged more than ninety calls in a four-hour period,three times what […]
Dublin Simon CEO Catherine Kenny responds to the February Homeless Report released on Friday the 28th of April. Homeless Report “The number of people staying in emergency accommodation in Dublin was up significantly in March, in a continuation of the trend seen over the past 15 months and representing an 25% increase on March 2022. […]
Dublin Simon CEO Catherine Kenny responds to the February Homeless Report released on Friday the 31st of March. Talk of housing targets is meaningless to those individuals with no forwarding address. There is nowhere for them to go, and they need homes now. It is due to successive systemic failures in the delivery of housing […]
The Homeless Report for January 2023 has been released today by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Dublin Simon CEO, Catherine Kenny responds with the following statement. January 2023 Homeless Figures Statement We are deeply worried by the increase in the number of homeless people staying in emergency accommodation in Dublin. This first […]