Project Homekey and Women’s Homelessness: Assessing the Impacts of Housing Interventions

Background: Women and Homelessness in CaliforniaIt is well known that California has a housing crisis.However, the crisis does not impact all Californians equally.The number of unhoused women in California has increased by 50% in the last 8 years, and women are much more likely to be housing insecure.Pregnant women, single mothers, survivors of domestic abuse, and women of color are especially impacted.Women's homelessness is shaped by intersectional factors of racialized, classed, and gendered oppression.Female households and families are systematically disadvantaged by economic and social structures, such as women's lower wages on average than men, social norms that dictate that women do the bulk of family caregiving, and high costs of childcare.The