Hilary Botein - Home Safe Home

Violence against Women and Children

Judy L. Postmus, Series Editor

Millions of women and children are affected by violence across the globe. Gender-based violence affects individuals, families, communities, and policies. Our new series includes books written by experts from a wide range of disciplines including social work, sociology, health, criminal justice, education, history, and womens studies. A unique feature of the series is the collaboration between academics and community practitioners. The primary author of each book in most cases is a scholar, but at least one chapter is written by a practitioner, who draws out the practical implications of the academic research. Topics will include physical and sexual violence; psychological, emotional, and economic abuse; stalking; trafficking; and childhood maltreatment, and will incorporate a gendered, feminist, or womanist analysis. Books in the series are addressed to an audience of academics and students, as well as to practitioners and policymakers.

Hilary Botein and Andrea Hetling, Home Safe Home: Housing Solutions for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

Hilary Botein and Andrea Hetling

Rutgers University Press

New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Botein, Hilary, 1965 author. | Hetling, Andrea, 1971 author.

Title: Home safe home : housing solutions for survivors of intimate partner violence / Hilary Botein and Andrea Hetling.

Description: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016. | Series: Violence against women and children | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN | ISBN 9780813585857 (hardback) | ISBN 9780813585840 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780813585864 (e-book (epub)) | ISBN 9780813585871 (e-book (Web PDF))

Subjects: LCSH: Abused womenHousingUnited States. | Family violenceUnited States. | WomenViolence againstUnited States. | United StatesSocial policy. | BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Womens Studies. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness.

Classification: LCC HV1445 .B68 2016 | DDC 363.5/9dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/

A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library.

Copyright 2016 by Hilary Botein and Andrea Hetling

Epilogue copyright 2016 by Carol Corden

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Part One
Why Long-Term Housing for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence?

Part Two
The Current Policy and Service Environment: How Did We Get Here?

Part Three
An Evolving Approach: Long-Term Housing

Part Four
Next Steps?

Carol Corden

We met in January 2006 as two brand-new, tenure-track assistant professors at the University of Connecticut, Department of Public Policy. It is a small department with a rigorous and growing Masters of Public Administration program, with a nationally ranked focus in public finance and budgeting. We connected over our common interest areas, somewhat unrelated to the strength of the department, and our junior status. We felt lucky as our relationship as supportive colleagues grew into a great opportunity for collaborative research. Hilarys focus and expertise in homelessness and housing policy and Andreas in intimate partner violence and income support policy were perfect complements as we planned and embarked on a research agenda that examined long-term housing for IPV survivors. In the fall of 2006, we began our case study of Prudence Crandalls Rose Hill Program.

We both left the University of Connecticut in the summer of 2007 and went on to other opportunities, as academics often do. Hilary accepted a tenure-track position at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, CUNY, and Andrea accepted one at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick. We remained in close contact while finishing articles on the Rose Hill project and afterwards as well to discuss life in academiaparticularly as women and new mothersas we both moved on to other, independent research projects.

In the fall of 2012, we got another opportunity to collaborate. New Destiny Housing, a nonprofit organization in New York City, was interested in working with researchers to examine their new building in the Bronx, The Anderson, our second case study in the book. We jumped at the chance to work together again. While working on this project, one of Andreas colleagues, Judy Postmus, a faculty member at Rutgers School of Social Work and Director of the Center on Violence Against Women and Children, reached out to Andrea about writing a book for a new series by Rutgers University Press, and Andrea reached out to Hilary. We thank Judy Postmus for approaching us; it has been a challenging and rewarding process, and we are thrilled to have the ability to share our research and thoughts with a broader audience. Our work is applied, and sharing it with students, advocates, policymakers, practitioners, and the interested public is important to both of us. We thank our editors at Rutgers University Press, Katie Keernan and Kimberly Guinta, who provided clear guidance and patient support as we navigated our new endeavor. Our external reviewers, Taryn Lindhorst, from the University of Washington, and Charlene Baker, from the University of Hawaii, provided detailed and thorough comments that made this book a stronger and more rigorous manuscript. We also thank Tamara Swedberg, an Instructional Technology Specialist at Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, for her assistance in designing and configuring the figures in the book.

Reflecting on the research projects that are the foundation of this book, we have a number of others to thank. Both undergraduate and graduate students have worked with us as research assistants on the New Destiny project. Kenya Graham, Sonia Gupta, Sai Khisty, Rachel Kim, Annelisa Steeber, and Miriam Woodward assisted with literature reviews, website and document searches, interview transcriptions, and administrative tasks. Amy Dunford, a graduate student at Rutgers University Bloustein School, assisted in the final stages of manuscript preparation, and her careful and meticulous edits were invaluable.

Two students deserve a multitude of thanks, Jennifer Proto, an alumna of the University of Connecticut Masters of Public Policy Program, and Gretchen Hoge, a doctoral candidate at Rutgers Universitys School of Social Work. Jennifer was our sole research assistant at the University of Connecticut while we were researching Rose Hill. Jennifer coordinated focus groups, took notes during the sessions, transcribed audio recordings, and conducted literature reviews. Her attention to detail and enthusiasm for the project were integral to the process. Gretchen worked with us on the New Destiny project and was solely responsible for the Spanish language component of the project. She translated all forms and instruments, conducted interviews with the Spanish-speaking resident, transcribed and translated interviews, and assisted with coding. Her expertise in both the language and culture strengthened and broadened the scope of the project.