In this 2005 survey, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP) and the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) received survey responses from 76 legal and social services providers around the country who work with homeless and low-income domestic violence victims to address their housing needs. The survey was intended to assess the extent of housing denials and evictions of domestic violence victims because of the domestic violence against them. The survey sought to gather the following information from the respondents:
- the approximate number of domestic violence-related evictions and denials that legal and social services providers handled compared to the number of all evictions and denials handled;
- the approximate number of domestic violence-related evictions and denials these providers handled by type of housing, including federal public and Section 8 housing; and
- stories of such evictions and denials from legal and social services providers with documentation of these cases.