Housing

Most hotel rooms used for emergency accommodation ‘won’t return to hospitality use’ in near future

12 per cent of all hotel beds were contracted to the state for the provision of emergency accommodation in 2023

The majority of state-contracted accommodation in Dublin is used to house asylum seeker and the homeless, which is seen as longer term business, Savills said

The majority of hotel accommodation being used to house asylum seekers and homeless families is unlikely to return to hospitality use in the near future, Savills has predicted.

In a statement on Monday, the property agent said that the provision of asylum seekers and homeless accommodation on behalf of the state is seen as a longer term business agreement, and that it believes most of the hotel supply fulfilling these contracts “will not return to ...