We’re excited to share some exciting updates from the Women’s Housing Alliance (WHA) in relation to our Homes for 100 Women project. Over the past month, the WHA have hosted two ‘Transform’ Workshops, co-designing service responses to gendered homelessness and housing stress alongside Lived Experience Advisors and sector professionals. The forums have:
- Explored how the prioritisation of housing and support based on rooflessness, rather than suitability and safety of housing, often excludes trans women, cis women and non-binary people from critical early support,
- Re-conceptualised ways services can work together to provide trauma-informed integrated support that understand the full intersectional needs of trans women, cis women and non-binary people and their families,
- Taken the first steps in the co-design of a pilot service model for a gender transformative housing and support response.
A huge thank you to our eleven incredible Lived Experience Advisors for sharing their invaluable expertise and experiences and representatives from the following organisations: Juno, Elizabeth Morgan House, Good Samaritan Inn, Law and Advocacy Centre for Women, Drummond Street (Pride in Place), Women’s Property Initiatives, Women’s Housing Limited, WIRE, Council to Homeless Persons and McAuley. The WHA would also like to acknowledge Joanne Osbourne-Taylor and Portable for their generous support in designing and facilitating the workshops.
The co-design process and a blueprint for the gender transformative integrated support and housing response will continue in early 2025.
Stay tuned for more updates.
Visit the Women’s Housing Alliance website to learn more.
