‘We’ve been robbed’: Young women and gender diverse people’s housing experiences and solutions

To understand the housing experiences of young women and young gender diverse people living in Australia, YWCA Australia has partnered with researchers at Swinburne University of Technology. In this study, a generational, gendered, and intersectional approach is used to investigate the lived experience of housing insecurity and/or homelessness risk and homelessness experienced by a diverse range of young women and young gender diverse people aged 18 to 30 years. Using a ‘housing aspirations’ lens, this research centres the voices and lived experiences of young women and young gender diverse people, to focus on housing challenges experienced by them in contemporary Australia, as well as to identify and articulate the housing solutions that they say are needed.