How to Advocate for Public and Assisted Housing for Your Battered Immigrant or Trafficking Survivor Client

This fact sheet highlights the legal right of immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking and human trafficking, and run away, abused and abandoned children to access shelter and transitional housing. Included is a discussion of anti-discrimination laws and advocacy strategies that advocates and attorneys can use to successfully advocate to have immigrant victim clients accepted in shelters and transitional housing programs.

Resource links include:

• How to Advocate for Public and Assisted Housing for Your Battered Immigrant or Trafficking Survivor Client
• Federally Assisted Housing and Immigrant Eligibility
• The Law: Immigrants are Legally Eligible for Transitional Housing