MEDIA RELEASE: Coalition to End Women’s Homelessness launched landmark report on women’s experiences of homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Ngā Ara ki te Kāinga: Understanding Barriers and Solutions to Women’s Homelessness in Aotearoa is a research report that brings together the voices of lived experience and Census data to show the realities of housing deprivation for women and what can be done to make a change.

Kaiwhakahaere Matua/Executive Officer of New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services Nikki Hurst believes a structural fundamental shift in how we do housing is essential in Aotearoa New Zealand.   

It has become increasingly clear that often the most hidden and at-risk group of women experiencing homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand are our older women.

Housing First Auckland present their early insights on the gendered data they have been collecting across their housing services

With a growing cost-of-living crisis looming over peoples’ heads in Aotearoa New Zealand, more barriers are being created for women who are already challenged to house and feed their families. Wahine who rent homes are being particularly hit hard.

For the nearly 400,000 people living in Aotearoa who identify as being Pacific, homeownership can simply feel out of reach and unachievable.

The evolving landscape of aged care in Aotearoa New Zealand is concerning for a nation with a rapidly aging population.

It has been another busy month for the Coalition to End Women’s Homelessness as we continue to push for the system changes needed in data and evidence and policy funding, and shine a light on women’s experiences of living unhoused and unsafe.

Older women are at increasing risk of homelessness in Aotearoa-New Zealand.

A gender lens on housing design.

Making the invisible, visible