Service targeting for DV: the need for a much broader understanding of housing and violence

In 2008 WISHIN published research into single, older women and hidden homelessness, 'Going it alone: single, low needs women and hidden homelessness'. One of the issues raised by the research was the contribution of housing insecurity to the incidence of domestic violence. The concern at the outset was that service targeting tends to exclude single, older, low needs women, whose homelessness then remains hidden. The homelessness adaptation strategies revealed by the women in the study highlighted the role partnering plays for women in securing housing.