I work with survivors with domestic violence and sexual violence, as a therapist. One of the ongoing challenges many survivors face – disproportionately survivors of color – is barriers to safe, affordable housing in HoCo. There is the issue of lack of affordable housing, and then the almost impossible process of trying to locate affordable housing (on top of minimal available time = folks already working several jobs, often having limited access to adequate transportation, not to mention other barriers of the administrative systems). I could name many individual stories, but want for now to lift up this as the story on my mind when I think of recent (and ongoing) experience of racism that make me think things must change for equity to occur.
