A Home of Her Own Housing and Women Report Launch

1. A Home of Her OwnHousing and WomenReport Launch Houses of Parliament Hosted by Helen Hayes MP 18 July 2019 #HomeOfHerOwn @WomensBudgetGrp

2. A Home of Her OwnHousing and WomenChair: Helen Hayes MPSara Reis | UK Women’s Budget GroupDenise Fowler & Zaiba Qureshi | Women’s Housing ForumJaime Richards | Coventry Haven Women’s AidSimon Hughes | St Mungo’s #HomeOfHerOwn @WomensBudgetGrp

3. A Home of Her OwnHousing and WomenReport Launch Houses of Parliament Hosted by Helen Hayes MP 18 July 2019 #HomeOfHerOwn @WomensBudgetGrp

4. Housing tenure #HomeOfHerOwn @WomensBudgetGrp

5. Housing affordability #HomeOfHerOwn @WomensBudgetGrp

6. Housing affordability for women #HomeOfHerOwn @WomensBudgetGrp

7. Housing affordability for women – buying #HomeOfHerOwn @WomensBudgetGrp

8. Housing affordability for women – private rents #HomeOfHerOwn @WomensBudgetGrp

9. Housing affordability for women – LHAs and housing benefit #HomeOfHerOwn @WomensBudgetGrp

10. A Home of Her Own – Housing and Women Contact Marion Sharples to find out more and to feed in to our work on creating a gender-equal economy: marion.sharples@wbg.org.uk

11. A Home of Her OwnHousing and WomenChair: Helen Hayes MPSara Reis | UK Women’s Budget GroupDenise Fowler & Zaiba Qureshi | Women’s Housing ForumJaime Richards | Coventry Haven Women’s AidSimon Hughes | St Mungo’s #HomeOfHerOwn @WomensBudgetGrp

12. Thank you! NEXT EVENT: Gender and trade agreements 12 September 2019 10am-12pm Thatcher Room, Portcullis House Sara Reis UK Women’s Budget Group sara.reis@wbg.org.uk

22. A Home of Her OwnHousing and WomenReport Launch Houses of Parliament Hosted by Helen Hayes MP 18 July 2019 #HomeOfHerOwn @WomensBudgetGrp

24. About St Mungo’s St Mungo’s vision is that everyone has a place to call home and can fulfil their hopes and ambitions. As a homelessness charity and housing association our clients are at the heart of what we do. We provide a bed and support to more than 2,800 people a night who are either homeless or at risk, and work to prevent homelessness.

25. 2019 is our 50th Anniversary! We support men and women through more than 300 projects including street outreach, emergency, hostel and supportive housing projects, Housing First, advice services and specialist physical health, mental health, skills and work services. We work across London and the south of England, as well as managing major homelessness sector partnership projects such as StreetLink and the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN). We influence and campaign nationally to help people to rebuild their lives.

26. Women and Homelessness

27. Women and Homelessness 642 women sleeping rough on any one night (14% of total) 29% of people accessing hostels are women 57% of statutory homeless households are lone women or women with dependent children

28. Rough Sleeping

34. The impact of Rough Sleeping Women and Men are dying on the street The number of rough sleepers who have died on the streets and in temporary accommodation has more than doubled since 2013 The average age of death for men is 44 years The average age of death for women is 42 years Source ONS

35. Gender, Social Inequality and experience of violence and abuse MHCLG national rough sleeping strategy 2018 “women who sleep rough are more likely to have specific support needs and to have experienced trauma” 7% of homeless services are specifically for women 60% of areas in England and 90% in Wales have no services specifically for women – a postcode lottery

36. Women’s Aid found that 31% of women with mental health needs and 65% of women with substance use issues were unable to be accommodated by refuges because of their level of need 54% of Women housed by St Mungo’s have experienced domestic violence and abuse “we have to hide because if we don’t we are going to get raped, kicked, beat” St Mungo’s client 2019 Women's rough sleeping patterns make them harder to find

37. Multiple Needs Mental Health – among St Mungo’s clients women are significantly more likely to have a diagnosis of Personality disorder, Anxiety or PTSD than men. Substance Use – among St Mungo’s clients women are significantly more likely to use Crack cocaine and Heroin than men. Risk of overdose is 80% higher for women than men among St Mungo’s clients

38. Mothers and Children

39. Many of our female clients have had multiple pregnancies with children taken into care at birth https://www.pause.org.uk/about-us/

40. “ We want Physical and Emotional safety” Women at St Mungo’s A three year strategy for 2019-2022

41. Useful links https://www.stephaniecovington.com/assessment-tools.php https://www.mungos.org/app/uploads/2017/11/StM_Pregnancy_Toolkit_Final.pdf?x74044 https://www.mungos.org/app/uploads/2019/03/St-Mungos-Womens-Strategy-2019-22-web.pdf?x74044 https://www.mungos.org/app/uploads/2018/10/Women-and-Rough-Sleeping-Report-2018-Summary.pdf https://www.mungos.org/app/uploads/2018/10/Women-and-Rough-Sleeping-Report-2018.pdf Simon.hughes@mungos.org Catherine.glew@mungos.org

42. A Home of Her OwnHousing and WomenReport Launch Houses of Parliament Hosted by Helen Hayes MP 18 July 2019 #HomeOfHerOwn @WomensBudgetGrp

43. A Home of Her OwnHousing and WomenChair: Helen Hayes MPSara Reis | UK Women’s Budget GroupDenise Fowler & Zaiba Qureshi | Women’s Housing ForumJaime Richards | Coventry Haven Women’s AidSimon Hughes | St Mungo’s #HomeOfHerOwn @WomensBudgetGrp