General vision of homelessness in Auckland central city. Photo: RNZ / Luke McPake
A new report has found some homeless women find it safer to sleep on the streets than at a shelter.
The study outlines harrowing experiences of violence and abuse in emergency and transitional housing, as well as more broad inequities women face in the housing system.
A group of sector leaders were prompted to commission the research after seeing firsthand that support is largely designed with men in mind.
Vic Crockford is the former chief executive of Community Housing Aotearoa, and leads the Coalition to end Women's Homelessness.
She speaks to Susie alongside Hayley Rawhiti, the co-leader of Te Whare Hīnatore, a women's shelter run out of Auckland City Mission.
