'I heard stories about property managers asking people if they were okay with two men renting the house next door when they, the prospective neighbours, had kids,' writes Dr Brodie Fraser.
Opinion: The alarming statistics for homelessness and housing instability among the LGBTIQ+ community will only improve if we start taking renter rights seriously.
Internationally, LGBTIQ+ people make up 20-40 percent of those experiencing homelessness, despite only comprising 5-10 percent of the general population.
LGBTIQ+ people experience disproportionately high rates of the structural, social and biographical factors causing and exacerbating homelessness such as poverty, family relationship breakdown, sexual abuse, foster care, substance use, and poor health. Read more