When she moved in, Jacob was excited by promises of help finding child care, educational opportunities and permanent housing. It is instead, Allen said, a transitional housing program with “wraparound services,” operating with the women as guests bound by a “covenant” agreement that is not a lease. It shifted to serve domestic violence survivors in 2015, then later expanded to a second house and began securing domestic violence grants from the county council. ADOf the 20 domestic violence survivors accepted into the program since 2016, Allen said that seven have found permanent housing and that five are in the process. “Being in the fifth year of the domestic violence grant program, we should go back and do an evaluation,” he said.

Source: Washington Post October 30, 2020 16:52 UTC