Home Safe Home

HILARY BOTEIN is an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, City University of New York.  ANDREA HETLING is an associate professor in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

• Preface and Acknowledgments IntroductionPart I Why Long-Term Housing for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence? Chapter 1 - “Why Doesn’t She Leave?”: Intimate Partner Violence and Housing Instability Chapter 2 - “How Does Housing Help?”: A “Services Light” Long-Term Housing ModelPart II The Current Policy and Service Environment: How Did We Get Here? Chapter 3 - First Stop: Emergency Shelters and Transitional Programs Chapter 4 - Mismatch between US Social Policy and Intimate Partner ViolencePart III An Evolving Approach: Long-Term Housing Chapter 5 - National Overview: Legislative Response and Program Variations Chapter 6 - Developing Program Theory and Goals: Long-Term Housing with Services Chapter 7 - Survivor Perspectives on Program Theory and ModelsPart IV Next Steps? Chapter 8 - Moving Forward: Research and PolicyEpilogue: A Practitioner’s PerspectiveAppendix Bibliography Index

"In this book, Botein and Hetling provide a thorough and historically informed assessment of our continuing inability to respond effectively to the housing needs of victims of interpersonal violence.  By highlighting some effective (and ineffective) strategies, and from their listening to the views of the women affected, they point a way forward that focuses us more quickly on the endgame – stable, long-term housing." - Dennis Culhane (Dana and Andrew Stone Professor of Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania) "Botein and Hetling have written a marvelously insightful analysis on the importance of housing for abused women seeking a life free of domestic violence.  This book shows us how to move forward towards sustainable policy and will be an asset to researchers, advocacy organizations, and all else who care the most about abused women’s needs for stable, safe, and affordable housing."- Jacquelyn Campbell (PhD, RN, FAAN, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing)