Since 2013
Transforming the housing market for diverse lifestyles
In this session, Ms. Lisa Kasai and Ms. Miho Nashiya will talk about "housing", which is an important foundation of life for sexual minorities.
Message from Lisa Kasai
In this subcommittee, we will discuss LGBTQ and housing issues, which have hardly been dealt with in classrooms. There are many sexual minorities who are excluded from the housing market due to difficulties in same-sex residency and gender discrepancies in appearance and identification. However, such facts have been resolved by individual efforts and ingenuity, and as a result, they have become invisible. Touching on this theme, I was once again surprised by the closed nature of the housing market and the emphasis placed on heterosexual marriage and blood ties. We decide who to live with, not society. What does it take to make it happen?
We will cut into the relationship between sex and housing issues, visualize the actual situation, and use it as evidence to transform the housing market. This is also the rapporteur's goal. Please share your wisdom with us. We look forward to seeing you at the breakout session.
Message from Miho Nashiya
In this subcommittee, we will share the issues of LGBTQ+ and housing that we have seen through the operation of the LGBTQ+ friendly share house "Maison Q" operated by QWRC, and provide topics that add reality to concrete data.
I don't think there are many people who choose to live in a share house as a lifestyle at this point. However, as long as there are various lifestyles, the form of housing should also be diverse. In addition to living alone, living with a family or a lover, I hope that this will be an opportunity to think about living in a share house, where you live in a loose connection with others, as one of the diversity of lifestyles. . While also discussing the advantages and disadvantages of living in a share house, I would like to consider the role that a share house plays in the community and what we can expect.
Materials on the day
Lisa Kasai
Associate Professor, Faculty of Regional Development, Otemon Gakuin University
Doctor of Science. Graduated from Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University. Specializes in housing issues for single-parent households, victims of domestic violence, and sexual minorities. His major publications include "Housing poverty of single-mother households”Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha (2017),”Thinking about housing + care - Diverse forms of share houses for single mothers―” NPO Uzo Nishiyama Memorial House and Town Development Bunko (2018), “Thinking about housing rights from the age of 13”(2022) and others.
In 2009, he received the Urban Housing Society Research Encouragement Award, the 2016 Housing Research Institute Research Award, and the 2019 Urban Housing Society Research Paper Award. From 2017 to 2021, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism smart wellness housing promotion model business evaluation committee, expert member, from 2021, living environment maintenance model business evaluation committee and member to support the 100-year life era.
Miho Nashitani
"Counseling Lab SORA"representative
Certified psychologist and clinical psychologist of a counseling shop who loves freedom. "Counseling Lab SORA"representative. QWRC board member. In QWRC, "QWRC Nijinosora Counseling Room” and the management of the share house “Maison Q”. He is interested in how various partnerships should be, and is also the secretary of Polly Lounge and the founder of Polyamory Week. The third Polyamory Week 2023 will be held on February 20-26, 2023 (Twitter@polyweekjp)