Some shocking figures
A Red C poll for 'Simon Communities Ireland' shows one in four of us knows someone affected by 'hidden homelessness'.
That's someone without a place to call their own - that is NOT counted in the government's official homeless figures.
They stay with friends, couch surf, or live in overcrowded digs - which makes it difficult to include them in national research.
The Red C poll discovered homelessness could be much higher than we believe, with 290,000 adults likely to have been affected.
Head of Policy, Wayne Stanley, says those are shocking figures.
He stated: "We're not saying every one of those people is gonna end up crossing the threshold of the homeless service...what we do know is the vast majority of the people who have entered homeless services or presenting to the Simon community service around the country have had that experience of hidden homelessness."
