City Hall, Women’s Aid, & Airbnb unite to tackle domestic abuse
City Hall has joined forces with Women’s Aid and Airbnb for a new pilot to provide emergency accommodation and support for domestic abuse survivors in London. The pilot hopes to provide up to 60 survivors and their children with free emergency accommodation in Airbnb listed properties across the capital for up to two weeks.
It will also ensure that survivors receive “essential one-to-one” support services including legal advice, advocacy, and translation, as well as help with practicalities such as transport, thanks to “leading” UK charity Women’s Aid. All this aims to help “them to recover and move on with their lives,” City Hall says.
The new trial will work alongside the Mayor’s public health approach to tackling violence against women and girls, “which champions working in partnership across all sectors, including with businesses and charities.”
Across the country, around 3.8 million adults experienced domestic abuse last year. In London, over 90,000 cases were recorded by the poice in the year to August 2025. “Too many of these victims and survivors have no safe place to go because there simply aren’t enough refuges,” City Hall says.
The Mayor is supporting the new pilot with up to £50,000, matched by a £50,000 commitment from Airbnb. This is on top of the £54 million investment the Mayor has made in his Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation (DASA) programme which has helped over 40,000 survivors of domestic abuse since it was launched in 2021, including vulnerable men, women, and children, to rebuild their lives.
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