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Resources

Exploring Domestic Violence Survivors' Need for Transitional Housing
Dessie Clark
Cris Sullivan
and Leila Wood
This study explores the intersection of homelessness and domestic violence (DV) in the U.S. According to this article, DV is a leading cause of homelessness for women and children. The lack of stable housing further increases women’s risk...
Region:
North America
The Future of Women’s Refuges: A Vision for the Future, A Voice From the Future
Tillie Prowse
This article in the March 2018 edition of Parity discusses the future of women refugees. Among other things, the author calls for a recognition by politicians, legislators and policy writers that gender inequality is both the core of the...
Region:
Australia & Oceania
Public Hearing on Violence against Homeless Women in Delhi
Homeless women in Delhi face acts of violence on a daily basis, including verbal, physical and sexual abuse, and economic and social exploitation, which severely affects their mental and physical health. The media, however, seldom report...
Region:
South & Southeast Asia
I Built My House of Hope: Abused Women and Pathways Into Homelessness
Show less Leslie M. Tutty
Cindy Ogden
Bianca Giurgiu
Gillian Weaver-Dunlop
Violence from intimate partners is a serious reality for a number of women. For some abused women, leaving becomes a path to homelessness. In fact, when abused women and their children leave their homes because of partner abuse, they...
Region:
North America
Homelessness prevention for care leavers, prison leavers and survivors of domestic violence
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Ending Homelessness
Across Great Britain, tens of thousands of households approach local authorities for support with homelessness. The number of cases of all forms of homelessness has risen in England, while remaining steady in Scotland, though the number of...
Region:
Europe
Women’s Homelessness: International Evidence on Causes, Consequences, Coping and Policies
Guy Johnson
David C. Ribar
Anna Zhu
This paper reviews international evidence regarding women’s homelessness. It discusses different definitions of homelessness and how women are frequently part of the “hidden homeless” population and less a part of the unsheltered homeless...
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Conduct disorder behaviors, childhood family instability, and childhood abuse as predictors of severity of adult homelessness among American veterans
Jack Tsai; Robert A. Rosenheck
Despite US federal efforts to end and prevent homelessness among veterans, there has been limited examination of pre-military factors like childhood problems, associated with adult homelessness. This study examined childhood problems among...
Region:
North America
The Impact of Homelessness and Interspousal Violence on Children's Adjustment: a Comparison of Two Populations at Risk
Helen Luhaorg
The present study investigated the relationship between children's adjustment and two risk indicators, witnessing interspousal violence and transitional housing. Participants were 6- to 12-year-old children and their mothers who...
Region:
North America
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