When Policy Is Not Enough: Intimate Partner Violence Survivors' Search for Housing Assistance in Washington, D.C.
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| Název: | When Policy Is Not Enough: Intimate Partner Violence Survivors' Search for Housing Assistance in Washington, D.C. |
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| Autoři: | Cattaneo LB; Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA., Nnawulezi N; Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA., Chaudhry T; Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA., Hargrove S; Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA., King AA; Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA., Odongo L; D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence., Scheick EM; Columbus Community Legal Services, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA. |
| Zdroj: | Violence against women [Violence Against Women] 2025 Oct; Vol. 31 (12-13), pp. 3182-3207. Date of Electronic Publication: 2025 Jun 30. |
| Způsob vydávání: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | English |
| Informace o časopise: | Publisher: Sage Publications Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 9506308 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1552-8448 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 10778012 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Violence Against Women Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Original Publication: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, c1995- |
| Výrazy ze slovníku MeSH: | Intimate Partner Violence*/psychology , Intimate Partner Violence*/statistics & numerical data , Survivors*/psychology , Survivors*/statistics & numerical data , Housing*/statistics & numerical data, Humans ; Female ; Adult ; Middle Aged ; District of Columbia ; Male ; Ill-Housed Persons/psychology ; Ill-Housed Persons/statistics & numerical data ; Community-Based Participatory Research ; Qualitative Research ; Public Housing |
| Abstrakt: | Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Policies throughout the U.S. respond to the well-documented relationship between housing instability and intimate partner violence (IPV), but in practice survivors' needs often remain unmet. In this community-based participatory study, an interdisciplinary research team interviewed 41 survivors seeking emergency housing assistance at the sole public gateway for homeless families in Washington, D.C. Only four survivors received immediate assistance, and half were determined ineligible for services. While some felt genuinely supported, many survivors faced long wait times and experienced shaming and demoralizing treatment that exacerbated their risk. We discuss the influence of contextual factors including discriminatory narratives surrounding who deserves help, and a lack of system resources driving a scarcity mindset. Recommendations include a sustained, critical, and collaborative approach to evaluating local implementation of ostensibly supportive policies. |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: discrimination; domestic violence policy implementation; homelessness; housing policy; intimate partner violence |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20250630 Date Completed: 20250908 Latest Revision: 20250908 |
| Update Code: | 20250908 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/10778012251352859 |
| PMID: | 40586164 |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.<br />Policies throughout the U.S. respond to the well-documented relationship between housing instability and intimate partner violence (IPV), but in practice survivors' needs often remain unmet. In this community-based participatory study, an interdisciplinary research team interviewed 41 survivors seeking emergency housing assistance at the sole public gateway for homeless families in Washington, D.C. Only four survivors received immediate assistance, and half were determined ineligible for services. While some felt genuinely supported, many survivors faced long wait times and experienced shaming and demoralizing treatment that exacerbated their risk. We discuss the influence of contextual factors including discriminatory narratives surrounding who deserves help, and a lack of system resources driving a scarcity mindset. Recommendations include a sustained, critical, and collaborative approach to evaluating local implementation of ostensibly supportive policies. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-8448 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/10778012251352859 |