Offaly has the highest rate of homelessness in the Midlands.
Offaly has the highest rate of homelessness in the Midlands.
A new report from the department of Housing, Planning and Local Government shows that there is over 10,000 people in emergency accommodation across the country.
Forty nine people are currently homeless in Offaly, more than double the total in neighbouring Laois.
The O’Moore county has 24 people on the streets while in Westmeath there are 35.
That brings the collective number to 108 in the region — 2% of the national total.
More than half of those are in the 25 to 44 category, with two people over the age of 65 finding themselves without accommodation.
Twenty Five families are currently displaced in the Midlands — 56% of them are single parents.
However it is just one of just three areas of the country to have nobody in unsupported emergency accommodation.
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