Knowledge Hub

Domestic abuse is a primary trigger of homelessness among women and providing an effective response should be a key priority for local authorities across England.

Myths or assumptions about women’s experience impact on most aspects of homelessness, from who is represented in the data, how services are commissioned and designed, and how the public treat women who are visibly homeless.

Explore how services can develop a gender-informed approach, in order to improve outcomes for the women they support.

When services are designed without considering how to cater to the diverse needs of people they support, those needs are often hidden.

The following presentations were delivered in December 2020 at the Homeless Link young Women’s Network Event, drawing learning from our youth and women’s homelessness work.

Exploring gendered approaches to supporting women experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage

Case studies from March to July 2020.

This webinar is a discussion exploring how the approaches and models in Canada, Finland and Sweden in preventing and tackling women’s homelessness, could be useful or even replicable in the UK.

Threshold provides a successful, gender-specific Housing First service for vulnerable women in Greater Manchester. Hear about their work, a good practice toolkit they are publishing, and the importance of peer mentoring to the support they provide.

Hear from two of our Ending Women's Homelessness Grantees Safer Places in Essex and Staffordshire Women's Aid in Stafford on the support they provide to older women experiencing domestic abuse and at risk of homelessness.