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Number Of People Living In Emergency Accommodation Hits New High, With 154 Adults Homeless In Kildare

Department of Housing figures on emergency accommodation don't include rough sleepers, women in refuge centres, asylum seekers, refugees or the so-called 'hidden homeless'.

Another record total for the numbers living in emergency accommodation was set in February.

State figures show it has reached 15,378.

The total includes more than 4,600 children who are registered as homeless and growing up in B&Bs and hotels.

154 adults were registered homeless in Kildare - unchanged from January.

In Meath, 309 adults were homeless - a decrease from 312 in January.

In Wicklow, the figure stands at 80, up from 70.

Department of Housing figures on emergency accommodation don't include rough sleepers, women in refuge centres, asylum seekers, refugees or the so-called 'hidden homeless'.
 

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