Calls have been made for a targeted response from Government to end the homeless crisis in rural areas like Clare.
It comes as new figures from the Department of Housing show a 21% increase in the number of homeless adults in this county in the month of November, with 80 people here without a place to call home.
There was a rise in the number of children in emergency accommodation in the Midwest in the run up to Christmas also.
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General Manager of Midwest Simon, Jackie Bonfield has been telling Clare FM’s Fiona Cahill that the Government isn’t providing the local authority with enough funding to deal with the issue:
