Funding cuts to women-only shelters could be a positive event for communities

Yesterday a story appeared at East Valley Living, a Phoenix-area website, bemoaning the budget cuts by the State of Arizona to the women-only DV shelters across the state. The story included some stunning numbers on the millions of dollars per year the largest shelter in AZ spends on little more than housing and feminist education for a shrinking number of clients.

In response I wrote "Funding cuts to women-only shelters could be a positive event for communities" detailing how shelters could better serve their communities by eliminating most of that housing, emphasizing instead things like counseling and expanding the numbers of qualified clients.

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Ed. note: Trudy Schuett has been an advocate for sane public policy around DV programs and laws for a long time. Some on her can be found here.