Poll finds almost 300,000 Irish people have experienced “hidden homelessness”

The problem of so-called “hidden homelessness” appears worse than previously thought.

A Red C poll compiled on behalf of Simon Communities Ireland shows 290,000 adults in Ireland have experienced homelessness in some form outside of official Government figures.

Head of Policy at Simon Communities Ireland, Wayne Stanley, says one in four of us knows someone who lacks a place to call their own…