This article explores the lived experience of young women navigating and surviving domestic and family violence (DFV) and homelessness. Promoting the voices of young women through in-depth interviews,...
Women experiencing homelessness are marginalized not only through their housing status but also through their access and ability to manage their menstrual health. Currently, there are no existing published...
Women over 55 are at great risk of financial and housing insecurity due to systemic and compounding factors such as: Lack of superannuation Working part time or casually throughout their lives ...
People with limited physical and economic access to the quantity and quality of food they need to live an active and healthy life are food insecure. In Australia, women are more vulnerable to food insecurity...
The author Liz Lennon hopes that older single women reading this will understand an critical fact. This is that systemic and political issues and failures are what has placed them in poverty, housing stress...
From the Chair of YWCA National Housing: On behalf of YWCA National Housing and with the support of YWCA Australia, I am proud to present this report ‘Women’s Housing Needs in Regional...
Abstract Homelessness is a devastating experience for children and their families. Families, the majority of whose members are children, now comprise more than one-third of the overall homeless...
If a nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its elderly and vulnerable, Australia is set to fall shamefully short. Women aged over 50 are the fastest growing group of people at risk of...
The number of women aged 55 and over who experience homelessness in Australia has grown by 31% between 2011 and 2016. This trend is expected to continue unless social housing provision is expanded, given the...