Abstract
LGBTIQ+ people are disproportionately impacted by homelessness. To address this, we need to understand their upstream experiences of housing instability. This Briefing reports the findings and implications of a study focused on LGBTIQ+ people's experiences of housing instability. Housing needs to be viewed as a human right. At a minimum, we need political changes such as greater enforcement of the Healthy Homes Standards and improvements to the Tenancy Tribunal process. Internationally, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBTIQ+) people comprise 20-40% of those experiencing homelessness, despite only comprising 5-10% of the general population. 1 LGBTIQ+ people experience disproportionately high rates of the structural, social and biographical factors causing and exacerbating homelessness such as poverty, family relationship breakdown, sexual abuse,