A homeless charity in the city says 2022 was one of the most challenging years it has experienced in its over 50 year history.
Cork Simon Community recorded its highest ever financial deficit of over 750 thousand euro, according to its annual Impact Report released today.
The number of people turning to the charity for help increased by a third last year, while the number of people sleeping rough in the city more than doubled to nine people per night across the year.
Speaking to RedFM News Paul Sheehan from Cork Simon outlines why they spent more money last year:
"We've had to increase capacity at our emergency accommodation to meet increasing demand. We saw an increase in rough sleeping so we had to enhance our outreach team. And we also enhanced our housing teams for people that we are supporting in tenancies formerly homeless people, and just to make sure that they don't return to homelessness."
