Key Messages:

Experiences of homelessness are different for women, girls and gender-diverse people.
Homelessness services are gendered which means they are designed to address the needs of single adult males.
Women and gender-diverse people are overrepresented in homeless populations, but their experiences are frequently invisible and therefore overlooked by formal data and reporting tools.

Homelessness Among Women and Gender-Diverse People Women’s Homelessness & Housing Need

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Women’s Homelessness & Housing Need

This lesson is an introduction to the conditions and experiences of homelessness for women and gender-diverse people. The lesson explores the unique needs and challenges of hidden homelessness, the most predominant form of homelessness experienced by women and gender-diverse people.

Lesson objectives:

Discuss beliefs and assumptions about women’s homelessness
Describe the unique causes & conditions of homelessness for women and gender-diverse people
Explain the impacts of poverty and violence on homelessness and housing need

The State of Women's Housing Need and Homelessness in Canada