Overview of HUD’s Office on Gender Based Violence and the Violence Against Women Act

HUD’s Office on Gender-Based Violence (OGBV) develops, coordinates, and implements policies and programs to address the safe housing and economic stability needs of survivors of gender-based violence.

OGBV is responsible for:

• Setting policy on gender-based violence and housing issues.
• Leading coordination efforts to implement VAWA across HUD and in collaboration with other agencies.
• Overseeing HUD’s VAWA training and technical assistance work.

This project was supported by Award No. 15JOVW-22-GK-04010-MUMU awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

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