Abstract

Not all women who experience housing stress or need homelessness services are (or will identify as) 'escaping domestic violence', but all are affected by being women in a society with entrenched patterns of women being subjected to violence of various kinds. They may also have ongoing impacts from experiences of violence throughout their life-course. Conversely, not all women trying to build lives free of violence need or want homelessness services, but all are affected by housing affordability and need safe and secure homes.