New figures show the highest number of adults in emergency accommodation to date.
New figures show that 660 adults were living in emergency accommodation across the county at the end of June.
The crisis is also affecting children, with 209 young people in Cork and Kerry now growing up without a permanent home.
Nationally, homelessness has also hit a record high, with over 15,900 people relying on emergency accommodation and that figure doesn’t include rough sleepers or those in so-called “hidden homelessness”.
Commenting, Sinn Féin TD’s for Cork City Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire:
“There has been no emergency response to the ever-deepening homelessness crisis in Cork. Instead, there is just empty words and cruel inaction. We have seen this in the Government’s cruel and heartless decision to cut the Tenant in Situ scheme in Cork.
“It is clear that the Government have given up on solving the housing crisis. Without an emergency response from government the homeless numbers will continue to rise with ever greater number of adults and children forced to live for years in emergency accommodation.
“We need an emergency ban on evictions. We need an emergency supply of social homes to get people out of homeless accommodation. We need funding for vital homeless prevention schemes like tenant-in-situ restored and increased.”
