One of the Mid-West’s leading homeless service providers is calling for a change in how the number of homeless people are counted, in order to drive progress on the issue.
It comes as new figures show the Mid-west has the highest level of homelessness outside of Dublin, with Clare having one of the highest rates of rural counties in the country.
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Six people per 10,000 in Clare are now homeless according to the Department of Housing.
This doesn’t take into account the 21 homeless children in Clare, while Head of Policy & Communications with Novas, Una Burns, says the actual number of people without their own home is even higher again:
