Dublin City Council has estimated that it may need several hundred new homeless beds for 2023, in anticipation of an increased number of homeless people next year.
The figures were revealed as part of a City Council tender process seeking to find a venue that could provide extra emergency accommodation for the homeless.
“The estimated additional Emergency Accommodation requirements for the DRHE for 2022 are estimated to be in the range of 100 to 200 single beds, and 100 to 200 family bedrooms,” the document reads.
The DRHE is the Dublin Region Homeless Executive – the branch of the City Council which deals specifically with the homeless.
Therefore, the Council is anticipating that it will need as many as 200 extra beds for additional homeless people in the coming year, including hundreds of bedrooms for homeless families.
The Council previously made the same request for extra homeless beds for 2022, indicating that the problem is getting worse annually.
The development comes as homeless figures in Dublin have already hit a record high of over 11,300 as of last month.
Nearly 11,397 people were recorded as homeless in Ireland last month, according to the Government’s official tally. https://t.co/TPMwGdTLhL
— breakingnews.ie (@breakingnewsie) November 25, 2022
The government has spent much of the year straining to accommodate not only the growing number of homeless individuals within the state, but also a large influx of asylum seekers who have arrived in 2022.
It has been estimated that Ireland will have received 72,000 Ukrainian asylum seekers by the end of this year, with a further 13,000 to 14,000 asylum claimants of other nationalities expected to arrive during the same period.
A total of 72,000 Ukrainian refugees are expected to have arrived in Ireland by the end of the year, with the Government grappling to find suitable accommodation for those still arriving this winter. https://t.co/76LR8M6HAS
— TheJournal.ie (@thejournal_ie) November 24, 2022
Almost 10,000 asylum seekers arrived into Ireland from countries other than Ukraine in the first nine months of 2022, the highest figure for such a period in the State for more than 20 years.https://t.co/D3zs6PZQFD
— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) October 14, 2022
Many asylum seekers have arrived in Ireland with nowhere to go, being forced to sleep rough or stay on the floor of Dublin Airport.
Appeal for accommodation as Ukrainian refugees sleep in Dublin Airport after Citywest closure https://t.co/bd9q40WamW
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) October 22, 2022
Over 3,400 of those who are homeless in the state are children.
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