43,500 people are on Dublin City Council's housing waiting list and 17,000 are children. That's according to a report to be presented to councillors this week seen by The Irish Times..
The number of people waiting for homes is at an all time high, after the list increased by nearly 1,400 applicants between June 2015 and January 2016.
Just over 1,000 families and individuals were assigned homes in 2015 and over 90 percent of applicants have been waiting over a year.
Anthony Flynn is from charity group Inner City Helping Homeless:
"We hear of recovery, well not for those who are sitting on waiting lists. Many of whom are there for over 10 years this is totally unacceptable. At the rate the homes are being provided, those who are last on the list won't be housed for 40 years".
The largest group on the waiting list is single people with no children, who account for 11,500 applications.
Anthony says this is to do with the ban on bedsits saying "there's alot of problems with getting rid of the 'single dwelling unit' and the council haven't built any in the last few years".
Sam McGuinness from Dublin Simon says the only way to ease the crisis is to provide more housing:
"There isn't enough accommodation and the only way we're going to increase supply given the growing demand for families, new families, people coming home from abroad is to increase the stock".
Around 1,550 people are regarded as homeless.
The Government's Social Housing Strategy aims to eliminate housing waiting lists by 2020.
