Expanding Housing Assistance Mechanisms for Women Victims of Violence and Their Children

The lack of available, decent and affordable housing forces many women to face an impossible choice for them and their children: whether to remain in the cycle of violence or remain homeless.

In the absence of a policy that would create alternatives and answers from the housing sector for these women and for their children, many women are forced to continue living in a house that has become dangerous.

This publication constitutes a position paper in preparation for a further discussion in the Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women on the subject: housing assistance for women leaving shelters and victims of domestic violence.

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