Our founder migrated to the UK as a teenager and spent years navigating housing instability before later surviving domestic abuse where leaving was neither simple nor safe. Like many women, she stayed because housing insecurity made escape feel impossible. Safety was conditional. Support was inconsistent. When homelessness followed, it did not always look like sleeping on the streets, it looked like sofa-surfing, staying quiet, enduring unsafe situations, and holding it together on the surface while everything underneath was unravelling.

That experience revealed a critical truth: hidden homelessness among women is widespread, misunderstood, and often invisible to official systems. Women are routinely forced into impossible choices between abuse and homelessness, and many are denied support because their experiences do not fit narrow definitions of need. SBSC was created to challenge this reality and close that gap.