The above official homelessness data published by the Department of Housing identifies the number of people utilising State-funded emergency homeless accommodation on a regional and county basis in the last week of every month. The official figures only record those in state emergency homeless accommodation, but discounts those that are in ‘own-door’ temporary accommodation, domestic violence refuges, asylum seekers, people who are sleeping rough, and the very many who are ‘hidden homeless’ and staying with family or friends in insecure housing.