Women

This article explores the potential of co-design to facilitate an imagining of ontological security when designing safe, long-term and affordable housing with women who have experienced homelessness.
This study seeks to deepen understanding of the ethical tensions and emotional and embodied labor inherent in the work of service providers who work with pregnant and/or parenting women who are homeless, while advocating for structural reforms that support both client outcomes and provider well-being.
In a study on mothers’ experiences of a residential parenting and drug rehabilitation programme, housing was consistently discussed as crucial to recovery in terms of the ability of wāhine (women) to envision a secure future.
This study draws on face-to-face semi-structured interviews with 14 single mid-life (40-65 years) women living in private rental housing in Australia to gain insights into their experiences and the potential housing implications for older age.
Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Australia that explored women’s experiences of homelessness and pregnancy, this article discusses how mothering subjectivities are generated through constructed notions of the ‘good’ mother and the barriers mothers face in both enacting these discourses and in meeting the high moral standards of ‘good’ mothering without adequate resources and structural supports.
This article reveals competing representations of DFV-related housing precarity between housing and criminal justice policies, producing uneven effects for DFV victim-survivors.
To date, our research on homelessness, displacement, and trauma has enabled us to present the lived experiences of people—especially women, children, and girls—directly to decision-makers, and to give them a place at the table.

Housing Futures Essay The subject of ‘inclusion health’ has gained increasing prominence in both homelessness and health policy discourses across…