Addressing Housing Insecurity Among LGBTQIA+ Populations in the United States

This timely volume is a guide to what is most essential to know about the crisis of housing insecurity among LGBTQIA+ populations in the United States, with a focus on interventions and solutions.

Research consistently shows that LGBTQIA+ disproportionately experience housing insecurity, homelessness, and other housing needs at all stages of the life course. In this volume, the authors integrate and build on the research findings and recommendations from social scientists; housing, public health, and social service professionals and practitioners; legal scholars and policy analysts; and others on this topic, to explain what we know about housing insecurity among LGBTQIA+ populations, what we need to know, and what we can ― and must ― do to end it.

Addressing housing insecurity among LGBTQIA+ populations is especially urgent now. First, housing insecurity and chronic homelessness in the US are at an all-time high. Second, housing insecurity in the US among LGBTQIA+ populations is more severe than in other high-income countries and more difficult to address. Third, LGBTQIA+ populations in the US and globally have been targets of an unprecedented political backlash over the last few years that resulted in a record number of state and federal bills attacking the rights of LGBTQIA+ populations.

Addressing Housing Insecurity Among LGBTQIA+ Populations in the United States: Research, Policy, and Practice provides a comprehensive yet concise review of the subject, informed by scholarship on the causes, impacts of, and efforts to implement effective solutions to housing insecurity, and offers a research, practice, and policy agenda to address this crisis. The book is written to be accessible to diverse academic and professional audiences including higher education faculty, undergraduate and masters-level students, and educators, practitioners, and researchers in social work, public health, public policy, human services, psychology, sociology, education, housing and poverty studies, LGBTQIA+/queer/trans studies, family studies, and social justice studies. It can be a useful resource for policymakers; housing management and housing services professionals; LGBTQIA+ advocates and community organizers; and others who want to understand and end housing insecurity among LGBTQIA+ populations.

Christine M. Robinson, PhD, Professor of Justice Studies at James Madison University in Virginia, USA, teaches courses in the Department of Justice Studies and in several minors (Legal Studies; Social Justice Studies; LGBT Studies; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies). Her teaching and research interests include social justice interventions and policies, sexual orientation law and justice, and gender identity law and justice.  
  
Andy J. Johnson, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences Emeritus, taught a variety of psychology courses and a class on genocide at Bethel University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. His research interests center on the intersection of religion, gender, ethnicity, national origin, immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and ability/disability with interpersonal and systemic violence. 
 
April Vinding, MFA is a writer and Professor of English who's been facilitating artistic, nature-based, embodied, and mindfulness practices in traditional and non-traditional settings for twenty years. Her scholarly and creative work ranges from the practicalities of reviewing questions for ACT exams and directing university writing programs to teaching in the rainforest and facilitating community groups at art studios, rock shops, and cider houses. In all forms of her work, she's pursuing deeper understanding of generative practice, embodied learning, and the intersections of spiritual practices and the creative process.