9,150 people accessed emergency accommodation in Ireland in January.
It's a 2% increase on December's total of 8,914, and includes more than 2,500 children.
More than 70% of those in emergency accommodation are in Dublin.
The total from the Department of Housing does not include numbers of rough sleepers, those in direct provision or women in refuge centres.
"Distress and Bewilderment"
"Already in the midst of a housing crisis, the cost-of-living crisis is now dominating referrals to our prevention teams. There are elderly people wearing coats indoors to save on heating and young families attending soup kitchens to save on food.
"Rents are also increasing, causing major distress and bewilderment to people who have received valid notices of termination and cannot find anywhere to live within their budgets. When you’re fighting three crises at once – health, housing and cost of living, the term crisis begins to lose all meaning.
Latest figures by the @DeptHousingIRL show 9,150 men, women and children in #homeless emergency accommodation in Ireland during the last week of January 2022. This is an increase of 2.65% (233 people) in one month* and a 10% increase (236 people) since this time last year (8,313) pic.twitter.com/fgxPjVI83S
— Simon Communities (@SimonCommunity) February 25, 2022
"Our teams work with people who are spending far too long in emergency accommodation due to an ongoing lack of housing supply, managing the increasing challenges for these clients. Now, cost-of-living has introduced another stressor for our clients and our staff as their front-line health care workers. It begs the question, "what next", how much more can they take?"
