13,514 people were in emergency accommodation in November 2023, compared to 13,179 in October. It's a 17% increase on November 2022.
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.
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