Report shows further fall in homelessness across 2020

Building work near the tents of a homeless man in Dublin city centre. There was a decrease of 578 families (37.3%) in the number of homeless families in the last three months of 2020.

New figures show a fall of almost 16% in the number of people in emergency accommodation across 2020, led by a pronounced fall in the number of homeless families to its lowest level since early 2016.

The latest Homeless Quarterly Progress Report, taking in the last three months of 2020, shows that 8,200 individuals were accessing emergency accommodation last December, a decrease of 1,531 individuals compared with the position at the end of 2019.