Madam Briscoe, I think you also spoke about the long-term impacts of gender-based violence, including coercive control.
I met a woman—I'm going to say this very quickly—who was fleeing violence, had her kids there and was not able to deal with her feelings about that violence because she had to work at a minimum-wage job. She just had to go to work to support her kids. She had no ability to deal with her trauma. She came up to me—actually, I hate these stories because they sound political, but it was true, because it was about a guaranteed livable basic income—and she said, “Thank you: I need that so I can heal.”
Do you think that providing those kinds of financial supports is critical, in addition to things like rent geared to income, if we are going to support individuals so that they will actually be able to leave and then get the healing they might require to move forward in a way that is safer? I don't want to use judgmental terms, but "free from violence"....