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Recent all Ireland Poll details the pervasive yet underrecognized issue of hidden homelessness. It reveals the complexity and diversity of hidden homelessness, which often includes individuals who, despite lacking a permanent address, do not appear in conventional homeless statistics.

This research considers improving access to healthcare for women experiencing homelessness in Northern Ireland, with the hope that this will lead to better health outcomes and therefore better social outcomes, with the larger scale hope that this will result in reduced length of time homeless.

Every day we see people struggling with a range of complex needs, with mental health the most prevalent. We are also witnessing, due to layers of multiple disadvantage, people experiencing homelessness not able to access appropriate services in a timely way, and this is something which has been further impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Homelessness is a shattering consequence of cumulative factors that can leave people feeling they have no support, options or hope. The effects of homelessness are devastating.

More people are at risk of becoming part of the ‘hidden homeless’ community that has gone largely unreported in Northern Ireland.

Rough sleeping is only the tip of the iceberg

Critical research, mapping the impact of youth homelessness in Northern Ireland.

The homeless monitor provides an account of how homelessness stands in Northern Ireland in 2016

In Northern Ireland, one in five people experience poor mental health

370,000 people in Northern Ireland are living in poverty

Last year almost 20,000 people presented as homelessness to the Housing Executive

Housing Rights provides independent specialist advice, advocacy and representation services to people throughout Northern Ireland

Homelessness is an increasing problem, with an average of 18-19,000 households presenting as homeless annually in Northern Ireland