The number of adults living in homelessness in Clare has seen a slight drop while the figure for the entire Midwest region remains unchanged.
The latest Department of Housing figures show more than 70 adults here were availing of emergency accommodation across the week of July 21st.
There are now a record 16,058 homeless people in Ireland as well as a record 5,014 homeless children.
The newly-published data reveals a total of 73 adults were residing in emergency accommodation in Clare between July 21st and 27th.
This is down six from 79 in June.
The number of adults across the Midwest deemed homeless in July was 589 which was the same as the figure for June.
Of the 147 families in Clare and Limerick who accessed emergency accomodation last month, 91 were single-parent families.
A total of 222 of those in emergency accommodation in the two counties were adults while 232 were child dependents.
