Georgia’s Law for urgent safe housing for high-risk abuse survivors

This petition is based on lived experience and wider evidence that survivors can be left unsafe when housing systems do not respond quickly enough to known risk. A woman assessed as high risk by all services - police, Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC), Independent Domestic Violence Advocate (IDVA) or Independent Sexual Violence Advocate (ISVA) services should not be left waiting months for safety, placed in unsafe temporary accommodation, or refused practical routes to safety because she works and does not claim benefits.

Georgia’s Law would require housing responses in high-risk abuse cases to be treated as emergency safeguarding decisions. It would support urgent relocation in days, not months; cross-authority movement where local placement is unsafe; restrictions on unsuitable temporary accommodation; and ring-fenced social housing for high-risk survivors and refuge move-on.

Income does not stop violence. Employment does not reduce perpetrator risk. When risk is known, delay is not neutral - no matter the financial status