Callum Chomczuk, director of CIH Scotland, underlines the importance of housing for domestic abuse victims and survivors, and highlights the current 16 days of activism campaign about gender-based violence.
Statistically speaking all of us will likely know someone who has experienced – or is experiencing – domestic abuse. On average between one in three women will experience domestic abuse during her lifetime. Where gender is recorded, 81 per cent of all incidents of domestic abuse in Scotland in had a female victim and a male perpetrator.
Survivors and victims of domestic abuse – like all of us – rely on housing, and yet we know that the housing sector has much to do to help those at risk of – or experiencing – domestic abuse. In Scotland, domestic abuse is the main reason by women for making a homeless application.