483 - Thematic Session. Housing Instability, Gender and Sexuality

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

This panel will focus on research in the area of housing instability and the ways that housing instability connects with gender and sexuality. The panel will provide an overview of the history of housing discrimination and instability, and focus on current research in housing discrimination and instability related to gender and sexuality. Panelists will discuss the role of the rental housing market in creating both opportunities and disadvantages for different populations. The panel will include research on the impact of housing instability on risky sexual behavior, and the ways that the rental market discriminates against same-sex couples.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Melody L. Boyd, State University of New York-Brockport

Presider

• Melody L. Boyd, State University of New York-Brockport

Individual Presentations

• Housing Discrimination: A Moving Target - Gregory D. Squires, George Washington University; Susan Scovill, M.Davis and Company

• Housing Insecurity and Risky Sexual Behavior in the Poor, Urban Communities of Accra, Ghana - Meredith Greif, Johns Hopkins University

• Psychological Costs of Housing Instability and African American Mothers’ Cultural Resiliency - Ruby Mendenhall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Gender, Poverty, and Mechanisms of Exploitation in the Private Rental Market - Matthew Desmond, Harvard University