Along with poverty, domestic or intimate partner violence is a major trigger for homelessness among women. Only a few live openly on the streets. Due to their socialization, women often spend long periods trying to conceal their homelessness. They stay with friends, partners, or relatives, enter into forced housing to escape the streets, or live in insecure, unacceptable housing. Many of them remain in violent relationships or enter into new relationships to find a place to sleep.
Homeless women not only lack permanent accommodation, they often live in poverty and often suffer from health problems, such as mental illness or addiction problems.
Neither addiction support facilities nor psychiatric services currently meet the support needs of these women. Women-specific facilities for homeless assistance exist in only a few locations, and capacities are far from sufficient. Mixed-gender shared accommodations represent an unacceptable hurdle, especially for homeless women affected by violence.
To improve the cooperation between the violence support system and the homeless support system, FHK is in dialogue with the Federal Working Group on Homeless Assistance.
Scientific study "Supporting women's shelters on the path to inclusion", Women's Shelter Coordination 2024
Implementation of the Istanbul Convention – Protection from violence for women in emergency housing assistance,
Recommendation of the BAG Homeless Assistance eV
Empirical effect study ─ Women's Movement and Women's Thought, GEBEWO-Social Services 2012
The following federal associations are members of the Women’s Shelter Coordination Association
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