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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Maya Oppenheim

The house(s) The Independent built: The Brick by Brick campaign tackling domestic abuse in numbers

The houses, the first that housebuilder Persimmon has ever built specifically for domestic abuse survivors, will be semi-detached, with a living room, open-plan kitchen and dining room as well as a private garden - (The Independent)

Your home should be a place of safety, comfort and tranquility but for domestic abuse victims the home is an altogether different realm. Instead, feelings of dread, trepidation and anxiety are routine - as victims nervously await yet another aggressive outburst from their abuser.

But sadly, a chronic national shortage of safe spaces for victims means a woman urgently wanting to flee her abuser is turned away from a refuge every two hours across the country.

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