text: Evidence informed interventions and best practices for supporting women experiencing or at risk of homelessness a scoping review with gender and equity analysis While much of the literature on homelessness is centred on the experience of men women make up over one quarter of Canadas homeless population Research has shown that women experiencing homelessness are often hidden i e provisionally housed and have different pathways into homelessness and different needs as compared to men The objective of this research is to identify evidence based interventions and best practices to better support women experiencing or at risk of homelessness We conducted a scoping review with a gender and equity analysis This involved searching MEDLINE CINAHL PsycINFO and other databases for systematic reviews and randomized trials supplementing our search through reference scanning and grey literature followed by a qualitative synthesis of the evidence that examined gender and equity considerations Of the 4102 articles identified on homelessness interventions only 4 systematic reviews and 9 randomized trials were exclusively conducted on women or published disaggregated data enabling a gender analysis Interventions with the strongest evidence included post shelter advocacy counselling for women experiencing homelessness due to intimate partner violence as well as case management and permanent housing subsidies e g tenant based rental assistance vouchers which were shown to reduce homelessness food insecurity exposure to violence and psychosocial distress as well as promote school stability and child well being Much of the evidence on interventions to better support women experiencing homelessness focusses on those accessing domestic violence or family shelters Since many more women are experiencing or at risk of hidden homelessness population based strategies are also needed to reduce gender inequity and exposure to violence which are among the main structural drivers of homelessness among women 