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Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa

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LGBTIQ+ people are disproportionately impacted by homelessness. To address this, we need to understand their upstream experiences of housing instability. This Briefing reports the findings and implications of a study focused on LGBTIQ+ people’s experiences of housing instability. Housing needs to be viewed as a human right. At a minimum, we need political changes such as greater enforcement of the Healthy Homes Standards and improvements to the Tenancy Tribunal process.

World-first Census data highlights housing deprivation in LGBTQI+ community

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LGBTQI+ New Zealanders have been experiencing severe housing deprivation at higher rates than non-LGBTQI+ — according to world-first Census data out toda

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Dr Kimberley O’Sullivan | Energy Hardship Expert at University of Otago

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It’s mid-winter and freezing yet we are hearing about families often the most vulnerable families who can’t pay their electricity bills and end up withou

Focusing on LGBTIQ+ homelessness. He Kitenga 2022: Talented Futures. 2022.

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As a young campaigner on social justice and LGBTIQ+ rights, Dr Brodie Fraser has found working as a researcher in the Department of Public Health a perfe

Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Public Health Communication Centre Aotearoa. 2023.

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Warm, dry, safe housing is undersupplied by the market in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and councils have underinvested in high-quality infrastructure.

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Fraser, B.
2024
Housing instability amongst takatāpui and LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa New Zealand
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, September, 1–28.
Fraser B Pierse N Chisholm E Cook H
2019
LGBTIQ+ Homelessness: A Review of the Literature
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
16(15). doi: 10.3390/ijerph16152677
Fraser B Chisholm E Pierse N
2021
“You’re so powerless”: Takatāpui/LGBTIQ+ people’s experiences before becoming homeless in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Fraser, B. Chisholm, E. Pierse, N.
2022
A Failed Attempt at Participatory Video With Takatāpui/LGBTIQ+ People Who Had Experienced Homelessness
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
21
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