diff --git a/app/views/layouts/application.html.slim b/app/views/layouts/application.html.slim
index ccac1c14bb4..31dc2adbb3a 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/application.html.slim
+++ b/app/views/layouts/application.html.slim
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ html lang="#{I18n.locale}" class='no-js'
       meta http-equiv="refresh" content="#{yield(:meta_refresh)}"
 
     title
-      = content_for?(:title) ? APP_NAME + ' - ' + yield(:title) : APP_NAME
+      = APP_NAME
+      - if content_for?(:title)
+        = ' - '
+        = yield(:title)
 
     == stylesheet_link_tag 'application', media: 'all'
     <!--[if IE 8]>
diff --git a/spec/views/layouts/application.html.slim_spec.rb b/spec/views/layouts/application.html.slim_spec.rb
index dd18a895ea4..848c5c162fe 100644
--- a/spec/views/layouts/application.html.slim_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/views/layouts/application.html.slim_spec.rb
@@ -57,6 +57,17 @@
     end
   end
 
+  context '<title>' do
+    it 'does not double-escape HTML in the title tag' do
+      view.title("Something with 'single quotes'")
+
+      render
+
+      doc = Nokogiri::HTML(rendered)
+      expect(doc.at_css('title').text).to eq("login.gov - Something with 'single quotes'")
+    end
+  end
+
   context 'session expiration' do
     it 'renders a javascript page refresh' do
       allow(view).to receive(:user_fully_authenticated?).and_return(false)