There is an urgent need for housing for victims of childhood sexual abuse and victims of human trafficking, specifically female victims of sex trafficking who are seeking refuge from the abusive environments and bondage that they experience daily. In the United States there are limited resources for girls and women who are victims of childhood sexual abuse and/or sex trafficking.

Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST), the commercial sexual exploitation of children through buying, selling, or trading their sexual services, is happening in the United States in the form of prostitution, pornography, stripping, and other sexual acts.

Criminal networks transport women and children around the United States by a variety of means—cars, buses, vans, trucks, or planes—and often provide them counterfeit identification to use in the event of arrest. As a result, there are hundreds of thousands of women and girls, each day, who are treated as criminals by local law enforcement as they are arrested and incarcerated as a means to protect them from their traffickers.