This report seeks to understand the extent to which victim survivors of family violence seeking crisis accommodation are being referred between the homelessness and family violence sectors and back, without receiving the service they are requesting. It makes a series of recommendations to better respond to family violence and homelessness.

In response to the current housing crisis, governments across the country are implementing strategies to facilitate access to crisis accommodation for people. Increasingly, this crisis accommodation is provided in the form of motels. This paper seeks to summarise current evidence relating specifically to at-risk families residing in motels, finding that it is a suboptimal model.

This Evidence Brief presents key findings for people experiencing domestic and family violence in NSW from Taylor Fry’s Pathways to homelessness report. The authors also discuss implications for policy and practice. By better understanding the experiences and pathways of people experiencing DFV, supports can be put in place earlier to improve outcomes. The analysis uses...

This inquiry investigated how housing support for vulnerable families experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV) can be best integrated with other types of support to enhance safety and wellbeing, including for women in different housing tenures, for Indigenous women and the integration of social housing policy with policies to support women affected by DFV.

This report provides an insight into what happens to those women who are unable to access refuge services after having to give up their homes to escape abuse. Many survivors supported by Women’s Aid’s caseworkers said that since leaving their home they had faced homelessness whilst looking for refuge space.