Women

This Handbook of Practice aims to develop a framework to address gender-based violence with a trauma-informed lens, and with a particular focus on access to justice.
This article argues that accommodating homeless women in industrial areas on the outskirts of the city is an accommodation strategy which increases these women’s precarity.
This article provides an autoethnographic analysis of my experiences of administrating and supporting transitional housing programs in Canada.
The present study investigated variation in housing insecurity experiences in a sample of mothers, as well as which risk profiles were most strongly associated with subsequent homelessness.
This paper explores the results of a study conducted in collaboration with the homelessness sector in central London and an academic team. The results highlight the presence of a high-cost, high-risk population of women who are characterised by sustained and recurrent experience of homelessness, housing exclusion, and deprivation and who make repeated and sustained use of homelessness and other services without escaping homelessness.
Women experiencing homelessness may face barriers to access reproductive healthcare. This quality improvement (QI) initiative sought to examine perceived barriers to STI prevention and opportunities for expanding STI prevention services and education for women experiencing homelessness.
When housing interventions incorporate supportive elements like case management, notable enhancement in health and employment outcomes for the youth are noted compared to housing-only initiatives.
This integrative review summarises original research that explores women’s experiences of escaping domestic violence to achieve safe housing.