In 2021, Te Ngākau Kahukura hosted a series of webinars for the youth sector, sharing the expertise and lived experience of those working with and amongst rainbow rangatahi.
In our fifth webinar, Neihana Gordon-Stables, Nyx Simons, and Tycho Vandenburg talked about the housing and homelessness issues facing the rainbow community, the work being done to improve access to housing for rainbow folk, and ways housing and social support providers can improve access to their services.
About the presenters
Neihana Gordon-Stables is the Homelessness Support Worker at RainbowYOUTH.
Nicole Nyx Simons is the Homelessness Lead at Te Ngākau Kahukura, and project lead for Making Space.
Tycho Vandenburg is a PhD candidate in social psychology at the University of Auckland, researching transgender and gender diverse homelessness in Aotearoa.
Learn more
Homelessness Support at RainbowYOUTH - a homelessness service for rainbow young people in Auckland who are at risk of, or who are experiencing, homelessness. RainbowYOUTH can help with accessing things like Work and Income benefits, safe and supportive housing, and emergency housing services.
Making Space is a collaboration between RainbowYOUTH and Te Ngākau Kahukura to build capacity within Auckland’s housing and homelessness sector to provide safe and effective housing support services that are responsive to the needs of rainbow people.
Our background page on rainbow housing and homelessness.