Was Live Friday, Feb. 16, 2024 | 11am PST
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Guest Speakers
- Dr. Anita Hargrave, Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSF and lead researcher of the report “Toward Safety: Understanding Intimate Partner Violence and Homelessness”
- Jennifer White-Reid, Chief of Staff & Senior Advisor to the CEO at Urban Resource Institute. URINYC provides services to victims of domestic violence and unhoused people
- Desiree (Dez) Martinez, Executive Director of We Are NOT Invisible. Ms. Martinez experienced homelessness due to IPV.
Event Overview
Domestic violence – also known as Intimate Partner Violence – is one of the leading causes of homelessness, particularly for victims with limited financial resources. A new study released last month by the University of California San Francisco Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative finds that at least 17% of homeless people fled their homes because of partner violence.
Victims face many barriers to becoming housed again, including lack of financial resources, possible evictions as a result of police appearing at their homes too often, and poor credit scores because of partners fraudulently using their credit.
Speakers this week will discuss how domestic violence often leads to homelessness, the findings of the UCSF study, and the increase in domestic violence over the past two years in New York and its boroughs. We will also hear directly from a formerly unhoused survivor of domestic violence.