New law in Albania will provide low-cost housing for domestic violence survivors

“Why doesn’t she leave?” is a frustratingly common question asked of women in abusive relationships. The question is often followed with disbelief—if it was really so bad, wouldn’t she have left? Ask Silva Kaca* why she didn’t leave, for years, and she will tell you about one of the biggest roadblocks that many women in Albania, and elsewhere in the world face, as they try to leave an abusive partner—housing. Kaca was married for 22 years and had two daughters with her abusive partner. The girls would stop playing and…

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