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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence
This publication provides information about the housing challenges facing rural America, including barriers to affordable housing in rural areas, expanding housing opportunities, and available resources for homeless people in rural areas.
Research focusing on violence against women in public housing is discussed, noting that research on this topic is limited. The history of the One Strike policy is given, the interpretation and enforcement of the One Strike policy by Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) is outlined and examples of the impact of the One Strike policy on battered women are provided. Possible amendments to the One Strike policy are discussed along with future research recommendations.
Available from: Contact the NRCDV at 800-537-2238.
Advocates will find this report helpful for its succinct and well-cited chapters on the right to adequate housing, "One Strike" federal policy development, local housing exclusions, and screening procedures. The report also covers the many difficulties people face in legal challenges to their exclusion from public housing. Human Rights Watch offers recommendations to Congress, HUD, PHAs, publicly funded legal services organizations and the United Nations.
The brief gives examples of battered women faced with eviction due to their batterers' violent actions and discusses why this phenomenon is unsurprisingly under-reported. The brief also explains and debunks some common beliefs that people may have due to a misunderstanding of domestic violence such as that leaving a violent relationship is easy or that a survivor has the power to stop the perpetrator's violent behavior. Advocates may find this document helpful to explain how one-strike policies negatively affect survivors of domestic violence and how such acts discriminate against women.
The research findings, based upon three focus groups of female residents from the various housing types, describe women's housing needs specifically and broadly from location to the effect of utility costs with less modern housing.
