Safety Landscape: Housing Equity

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Housing Equity

Nationally, 92% of homeless women have experienced severe physical or sexual abuse in their lives. Some U.S. cities report that DV is the main driver of homelessness. Survivors face particular barriers to accessing safe and affordable housing (e.g. the impact of being turned away from shelter coupled with high median rent). As a result, they may have worse long-term housing outcomes (e.g. more likely to experience eviction or homelessness).

The purpose of this Housing Equity Safety Landscape is to share data that helps tell the story of:

  • Whether survivors have access to safe and affordable housing, in the short and long term
  • Which populations have more or less options for housing safety
  • What housing safety & housing equity for survivors looks like, and what is required to create it in our states

“Survivors are having a challenging time finding housing in our area. We see one or two units advertised in a month throughout our entire rural 5 county coverage area.”

“We need financial help for survivors who are fleeing DV, losing their homes, and unemployed. There’s a housing crisis.”

“We need to support survivors that do not qualify for rental assistance when they have no immigration status. The state needs to cancel the rent.”

-advocate-respondents of CSAJ’s Economic Impact of COVID-19 Survey

Housing Equity Dashboard

Note: Dashboards are best viewed  on a desktop or laptop computer in full screen mode. The layout and functionality may distort to fit smart-phone screens.

View Methodology & Documentation Doc for a list of all terms, data, and data sources for each Safety Landscape.

  • Full-screen mode: If the embedded dashboard below is hard to view, click the “expand” icon in the lower right corner of the window to view in full screen mode.
  • Filters (dropdown menus): In the dashboard below, there are five filters (dropdown menus) that allow you to change and refine data in the chart (from left to right): Indicator Type, Housing Indicator, Demographic Factor, Race/Ethnicity, and Year
  • Using the filters to select/refine data in the view: From the “Indicator Type” dropdown (far left) select the category of data you want to view: Access or Outcome. Then select a specific data point from the “Housing Indicator” dropdown to view in the map and related charts.  Some indicators can be further refined by using the “Demographic Factor” and “Race/Ethnicity” dropdowns. (If there is no data available in thes dropdowns, “no sub-category data” and “no race/ethnicity data” will appear in the dropdown window)
  • A note on the “Year” dropdown menu: Some indicators come from datasets from different years. If map or other chart detail disappears in the dashboard, try selecting a different year.
  • In the map view: Hover over states for pop-ups with additional state-specific data. 
  • In the State to State Comparison chart (below map): View how states are distributed on the data point you selected via all five dropdowns. Assess whether your state ranks higher or lower on the selected indicator, is clustered with other states, and/or is above or below the national average (the vertical red line).
  • In the All States/Territories chart (right of map): View specific statistics for states, sorted by top and bottom. Use the slider and dropdown to display more states or change how it is sorted.
  • Click on your state in the map view: Toggle to a state drill-down with the details on the selected indicator for your state, including general population and rates of violence data.
  • Click the download icon (bottom-right): To download a PDF, image, or PowerPoint slide of the dashboard. Ensure you’ve selected the data point via all five dropdowns and the view you want. Bring this to meetings, share with partners, add your own data to supplement, and use it in your advocacy!

  • Looking at the housing-access indicators, are survivors likely to have access to safe and affordable housing in your state? Access to shelter or housing services?
  • Does your state have better or worse housing outcomes? And which populations fare the worst? Does this match what you know about survivors’ experiences with housing?
  • What other data would help paint the picture of survivors’ housing inequities? Can you find it in other “safety landscapes,” pull from your own program data, or is it something that needs to be gathered?
  • What’s upstream from the housing picture painted here? What policies, funding, or other forces play a role in?

 

SEED-ing Advocacy

Click the links below to craft stories to fuel your advocacy & share your work, data, and recommendations with others. First, consider:

  • What data stands out to you? 
  • How can this data be useful? 
  • What other data do you have to supplement what you see here? What else do you need?
  • How can this data support your advocacy? Or how can your past advocacy efforts, insights, and lessons learned help others and improve the dashboard?

Use the prompts below to practice using dashboard data to craft and submit stories and ideas for systems change. You can also request assistance from CSAJ.

Use the prompts below to share your advocacy stories and best-practices with us. We’ll anonymize and add these as “map layers” in the dashboards in the future so the entire field can benefit. You can also request assistance from CSAJ.

Supplemental Resources

These additional resources are not meant to be exhaustive, but to fill some data gaps, and serve examples of data you may have (or could collect), including how it can be compiled and used in advocacy efforts. And they are meant to spur your curiosity to explore further.

Looking Upstream: Policy & Systems Change 

Check back soon!

We are currently developing a National Survivor Economic Equity Policy Platform and will be adding more specific policy analysis to the dashboards and website.

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This project is supported by the Allstate Foundation