Featured Statistics

As new data becomes available, this page will be updated with the most current statistics on the intersections of domestic and sexual violence, housing, and homelessness.

"Among mothers with children experiencing homelessness, more than 80% had previously experienced domestic violence."

from Homeless Children and Youth: Causes and Consequences

Source: Aratani, Y. (2009)
"In just one day in 2016, over 41,000 adults and children fleeing domestic violence found refuge in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program."

from Domestic Violence Counts: 11th Annual Census Report

Source: National Network to End Domestic Violence. (2017)
"In one Florida study, 78.3% of homeless women in the study had been subjected to rape, physical assault, and/or stalking at some point in their lifetimes."

from The Experience of Violence in the Lives of Homeless Women: A Research Report

Source: Jasinski, J. L., Wesely, J. K., Mustaine, E., & Wright, J. D. (2005)
"In a 2006 study of rape crisis centers and legal aid providers, 58% of respondents stated that at least one tenant reported sexual assault by a landlord during the survey period."

from National Survey of Advocates on Sexual Violence, Housing, and Violence Against Women Act

Source: National Sexual Violence Resource Center (2011).
"In a study of residents in domestic violence shelters across the country, 84% reported that they needed help finding affordable housing."

from Meeting Survivors' Needs: A Multi-State Study of Domestic Violence Shelter Experiences

Source: Lyon, E., Lane, S., & Menard, A. (2008)
"In a national survey of victim service providers, one third of providers reported that up to 20% of victims and survivors struggle to find or keep housing because of sexual violence."

from Housing and Sexual Violence: Overview of National Survey: January 2010

Source: National Sexual Violence Resource Center (2010)
"A range of factors increase homeless women's risk of adult sexual victimization...[they] coexist, interact with, and exacerbate each other over time, creating a complex and distinctive context for each woman."

from "No Safe Place: Sexual Assault in the Lives of Homeless Women"

Source: National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (2006).
"Thirty-eight percent of respondents to a national survey reported receiving reports of landlord sexual assault; in these cases, 79% of women reported that their landlords refused to repair locks, supply heat, hot water, or make the space 'safe.'"

from Landlord Sexual Assault and Rape of Tenants: Survey Findings and Advocacy Approaches via Housing, Homelessness, and Sexual Violence Statistics handout from NSAC 2011

Source: Keeley, T. (2006).