Housing · Safety · Recovery
Housing is the foundation for recovery.
For women rebuilding after domestic abuse, housing instability, or crisis: getting a roof overhead is only the beginning. HerPathHome exists for everything that comes after.
A deep breath after surviving.
The Foundation
A house provides shelter. A home provides something deeper: safety, identity, stability, and the ground from which a life can be rebuilt. HerPathHome bridges the gap between housing provision and human recovery.
This platform brings together practical rights information, lived experience, professional expertise, and research: because women navigating the system deserve more than minimum standards.
Recovery begins when people feel genuinely safe: not just housed.
Every woman deserves more than the minimum the system offers.
Information that helps women understand and use their rights.
Believing that recovery and rebuilding are always possible.
Free Resource
The Practical Guide to Domestic Abuse & Housing Support was written by a domestic abuse practitioner with over a decade in housing. It's for women who need straight answers, not bureaucratic language.
Trusted by IDVAs, refuge workers, and housing officers to share with the women they support.
Free Download
Rights & Information
Step-by-step guide to challenging a homelessness decision, requesting a review, and what to do if the council gets it wrong.
TenancyYou have more options than you've been told. What you can and can't do, and how to protect yourself legally.
Local ConnectionDomestic abuse survivors are exempt. Here's how the exemption works and exactly how to use it.
Priority NeedThe legal duty councils have, how to evidence your application, and what to do if they dispute it.
Safety PlanningPractical steps to prepare, what to take, who to tell, and how to protect your housing position.
RecoveryWhy standard housing processes often fail survivors, and what good practice looks like.
The Founder
"I've sat with women at their most impossible moments: and watched the system make it harder. HerPathHome exists because information is power, and power belongs with the women who need it."
HerPathHome was built by a housing practitioner specialising in domestic abuse and trauma-informed housing, with over a decade of frontline experience across housing, homelessness and supported housing. That combination of housing law depth, domestic abuse specialism, and lived conviction shapes everything on this platform.
This isn't a generic information service. It's built by someone who has sat in duty desks, read housing reviews, and challenged council decisions from the inside. The goal is to give women the same knowledge that professionals use: in plain language, at any hour.
HerPathHome is being established as a Community Interest Company: a structure that exists entirely to serve the community it was built for. No corporate agenda, no watered-down content.
Long-Term Vision
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Practical guides, ebooks, and explainers that give women the housing knowledge the system keeps opaque.
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Collecting and amplifying lived experiences around housing instability, DA, and recovery: to make the data human.
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A space where women feel seen, heard, and understood: and where their stories contribute to change.
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Using lived experience and research to influence housing practice, policy, and trauma-informed service design.
Writing & Reflection
June 2026
A house provides shelter. A home provides safety, identity and the ground to rebuild. What the housing system misses about recovery: and what survivors say they actually needed.
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April 2026
For Professionals
IDVAs, refuge workers, housing officers and social workers. HerPathHome is designed to be the resource you can safely signpost women to. Plain language, accurate, trauma-informed. No casework, no overwhelm. Just the information that empowers.