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Thu 11 Nov 2002Dublin homeless figure up by 300The number of homeless people in the Dublin region has increased by 300, two years into a three-year Government strategy to tackle the crisis, figures being published tomorrow will show.The figures from the Dublin Homeless Agency are contained in the three-year follow-up to the 1999 Counted In report which found 2,900 people were homeless in Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow. Of these 2,760 were found in the Dublin Corporation area.