More than 13,500 people were living in emergency accommodation in November – a new record homeless figure, 177 of them in the Northwest.
Of the 177 in the region, 62 were adults in Donegal, almost an 11% increase on the figure for October.
November seen 15 families homeless in the Northwest including 33 children, a rise of 13.8%.
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.
