Number of adults in emergency accommodation in Cork and Kerry region breaches the '500' mark
The number of adults in emergency accommodation in the Cork and Kerry region has breached the '500' mark for the first time.
514 people are now in emergency accommodation - that's up 37% in the last year.
RedFM News has seen the latest emergency accommodation figures for January which were presented to a meeting of Cork City Council this week and it's emerged that 48 new presentations for emergency accommodation were recorded in January alone.
This week local Cllr Thomas Gould called for 2,000 homes to be built every year for the next five years to remedy the problem.
He told RedFM News that for every person that was taken off the city's housing waiting list in January, four more people were added to it:
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