Women and Rough Sleeping: Evidence Review

Sleeping rough is dangerous for everyone. Women sleeping rough carry the added burden of gender-based violence and abuse before, during, and after their time on the streets. Hiding from harm can mean that women are hidden from help, and missing from homelessness services and statistics. “We have to hide because if we don’t we’re going to get raped, kicked, beat.” To explore how we can understand and end women’s rough sleeping, St Mungo’s has commissioned researchers from the University of York Centre for Housing Policy, Joanne Bretherton and Nicholas Pleace, to conduct a rapid evidence review.