In the context of rising inequality and eroding safety nets for marginalized communities, research is needed to demonstrate the ways in which settings can facilitate community, agency, and capabilities for low-income women. The purpose of this study is to examine if and how an organizational setting designed to support homeless, low-income, and other marginalized women can facilitate empowering changes and increased wellbeing among the women who participate. A thematic analysis of interviews conducted with 22 participants who attend a women's day center identified three ways in which the organizational setting impacted women's lived experiences: (a) increasing a sense of agency through acceptance, active and participatory roles, and ownership over the physical environment, (b) promoting a sense of community through rituals of care and attentiveness, alleviated social isolation, and mutual relationships, and (c) improving life circumstances by offering a safe environment, access to basic resources such as housing, and support for health and wellbeing. Findings highlight the setting features and psychosocial processes that foster flourishing and resist patterns of exclusion and devaluation imposed on marginalized women by dominant neoliberal values, institutions, and policies.

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“这是一个感觉像社区一部分的地方”：无家可归和边缘化妇女收容中心的反空间、包容和赋权

在不平等加剧和边缘化社区安全网受到侵蚀的背景下，需要进行研究来证明环境可以如何促进低收入女性的社区、机构和能力。本研究的目的是检查旨在支持无家可归、低收入和其他边缘化妇女的组织环境是否以及如何促进赋权变革和提高参与妇女的福祉。对参加妇女日间活动中心的 22 名参与者进行的访谈进行了专题分析，确定了组织环境影响妇女生活经历的三种方式：(a) 通过接受、积极和参与性角色以及对物理环境的所有权来增强代理感, (b) 通过关怀和关注、减轻社会隔离和相互关系的仪式来促进社区意识，以及 (c) 通过提供安全的环境、获得住房等基本资源的机会以及对健康和福祉的支持来改善生活环境. 调查结果突出了环境特征和社会心理过程，这些环境特征和社会心理过程促进了繁荣，并抵制了占主导地位的新自由主义价值观、制度和政策对边缘化妇女施加的排斥和贬值模式。