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The relationship between domestic violence and homelessness June 2010
Michaela Gosch
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Main Causes of Homelessness for Women
Income of women
Educational system
Difficulties finding work
Lack of affordable housing
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Hidden Homelessness
Female homlessness is invisible
“Individual coping strategies”
staying with friends or family
staying in violent relationsships
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Main reason for female homelessness -Domestic violence
To escape from violence, women are
often forced to leave home
They experience social and personal
disruption
They face financial disadvantages
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Austrian Federal Act on Protection from Domestic Violence
In force since 1997Barring orders
2 weeks (police)4 weeks (district court, temporary injunction)1 year and longer (civil court, temporary injunction)
2008: 6566 perpetrators were evicted
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Women’s Shelters in Austria
26 Shelters
748 places for women
and their children
Placed in rural and urban
aereas
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Women’s Shelter Graz
45 placesStyrian Act for Violence Protection InstitutionsMaximum stay of 6 months2008: 140 women and 136 children
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After leaving the shelter (2008)Former home with perpetrator: 37 %
New home: 22 %
Accommodation for homeless women: 12 %
Family or friends: 13 %
Former home without perpetrator: 6 %
Transitional accommodation: 4 %
No data available: 6 %
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Groups with special needs
Immigrants
Older women
Women with disabilities
Women with multiple issues
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Immigrant women
64% of women inthe shelterPoor social networkPoor language skillsNo incomeInsecure legal status
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Strategiesin Graz
300 places for homeless womenExpansion of council housingTransitional Apartments (Shelter)Prevention projects – schools hospitals
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Join inJoin in!
Affordable and supervised sharedappartements
Sustainability
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Art projects
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Thank you!
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Corporation with local political authorities
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We proudly present:
The women´s shelter choire!
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