Housing And The Violence Against Women Act
Constitutional Provisions, Laws, and Regulations
When a home is a place of violence, residents are vulnerable to losing their housing through eviction, coercion, or abuse. Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) finalized a new rule to protect the housing of survivors of domestic and dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. In an address to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Chandler, Arizona, [then] HUD Secretary Julián Castro emphasized the importance of the rule in building a broad set of housing protections into all of HUD’s key programs. “Nobody should have to choose between an unsafe home and no home at…
