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Home Safe Home: Housing Solutions for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Botein, Hilary; Hetling, Andrea
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Description for Home Safe Home: Housing Solutions for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
paperback. Series: Violence Against Women and Children. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 diagrams and 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFB; JFFE3; JKSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 259.
Housing matters for everyone, as it provides shelter, security, privacy, and stability. For survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), housing takes on an additional meaning; it is the key to establishing a new life, free from abuse. IPV survivors often face such inadequate housing options, however, that they must make excruciating choices between cycling through temporary shelters, becoming homeless, or returning to their abusers. Home Safe Home offers a multifaceted analysis that accounts for both IPV survivors’ needs and the practical challenges involved in providing them with adequate permanent housing. Incorporating the varied perspectives of the numerous housing providers, activists, policymakers, ... Read more
Housing matters for everyone, as it provides shelter, security, privacy, and stability. For survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), housing takes on an additional meaning; it is the key to establishing a new life, free from abuse. IPV survivors often face such inadequate housing options, however, that they must make excruciating choices between cycling through temporary shelters, becoming homeless, or returning to their abusers. Home Safe Home offers a multifaceted analysis that accounts for both IPV survivors’ needs and the practical challenges involved in providing them with adequate permanent housing. Incorporating the varied perspectives of the numerous housing providers, activists, policymakers, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Violence Against Women and Children
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813585840
SKU
V9780813585840
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Botein, Hilary; Hetling, Andrea
HILARY BOTEIN is an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, City University of New York. ANDREA HETLING is an associate professor in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Reviews for Home Safe Home: Housing Solutions for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
"In this book, Botein and Hetling provide a thorough and historically informed assessment of our continuing inability to respond effectively to the housing needs of victims of interpersonal violence. By highlighting some effective (and ineffective) strategies, and from their listening to the views of the women affected, they point a way forward that focuses us more quickly on the endgame ... Read more