Overcrowding and domestic violence account for over 40% of Dublin's homeless families

Other findings included that more than 60% of new families presenting to EA services in the Dublin Region in 2019 were lone parents, with more than 93% female. File photo: Yui Mok/PA

More than 40% of families who presented as homeless in Dublin cited family breakdown, overcrowding and domestic violence as a reason for entering emergency accommodation.

The finding is contained in new research looking at the profile of families who entered homelessness in 2019 — and comes as a new record-high number of people were in emergency accommodation last month.