Housing Precarity, Homelessness and Violence against Women and Girls

Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Women and children are finding themselves trapped between the housing crisis and rising levels of homelessness and shocking levels of domestic abuse, sexual violence, exploitation and control against women in Ireland which significantly impacts their lives. These are not separate crises. Housing insecurity makes women more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. For many women, domestic abuse is the direct cause of their homelessness. For Traveller and Roma women, migrant women, disabled women, lone parents, older women, members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) community, the situation is often more complex and the barriers to accessing safety even higher. To explore this link and identify effective policy solutions, the National Women’s Council (NWC) hosted a major conference on Housing and Violence against Women. NWC through this conference gathered evidence, ideas and testimonies from services, survivors, policy makers and political parties to highlight these close connections and identify effective solutions that are informed by the lived experiences of women.

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