Cork Simon says 1 in 3 of the people availing of their soup run are living in private accommodation but all of their financial resources are needed to keep the roof over their head.
The Soup Run operates every night of the year and the numbers availing of it are growing all the time as the rising cost of living is forcing people to cut back on their food bills in order to afford their rent.
It's a similar story at Cork Penny Dinners with the charity reporting that they are feeding up to 500 people a day up from 200 before Christmas.
The increase in people turning to charities for help is being directly attributed to rising inflation which is now running at nearly 7% which has seen a sizeable jump in people's utility and food bills combined with rent and mortgage repayments.
Paul Sheehan of Cork Simon told RedFM News that people are struggling and many more are being pushed into homelessness.
"About 1 in 3 people presenting to the soup run do have their own accommodation, most usually in the private rental sector.
"All of their resources are put in to keeping that roof over their head, and they have nothing left for food, or heating, or anything else -- and that's why they're turning to the soup run.
"Now with the cost of living going through the roofs, rents increasing quarter on quarter, those stresses just mount on top of each other.
"It's inevitable that a large amount of those people are being pushed into homelessness."
