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Homeless Figures Increase Across Kildare, With A Record Number Of People Living In Emergency Accommodation

232 people were registered as homeless in Meath and 48 in Wicklow.

Some 147 people have been registered homeless in Kildare.

This shows an increase in numbers from previous Department of Housing figures, in which some 138 people in Kildare were registered homeless.

232 people were registered as homeless in Meath and 48 in Wicklow.

More than 13,500 people were living in emergency accommodation in November - a new record homeless figure.

The Department of Housing has released its November homeless figures - usually they are published at the end of each month however these were delayed due to Christmas.

They show there's a record number of people living in emergency accommodation, with the State total at 13,514.

That includes more than 4,000 children for the first time ever who are growing up in B&Bs and hotels.

Dublin has the largest proportion of those in emergency accommodation at 9,906 - which includes more than 3,100 children.

The figures from the Department of Housing do not include asylum seekers, women in refuge centres, rough sleepers or the so-called hidden homeless.
 

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