Notes
Key populations: LGBTQ refugees who now live in Alberta
Key recommendations: Not stated
Community organizations: n/a
Future research / gaps identified: not stated
Integration timeline: Not defined
Key findings:
1) Alberta has deep affordability challenges for housing, as well as shortages and shortcomings with social and affordable housing.
2) Intersectional discrimination against LGBTQ refugees involving homophobia and/or transphobia, and racism creates multifaceted barriers to accessing housing and/or shelters.
3) Municipal and provincial housing policy focuses on low-income as the sole determinant of housing vulnerability, and does not consider other identity factors that impact this.
4) Discrimination that occurs outside the housing sector may have impacts within it, for example by preventing connections that could otherwise support refugees in their settlement process.
Location: Most participants were located in Edmonton, AB