« From the little house on the prairie to the sleep merchants » 40 women's stories to analyze ruptures, needs and strategies to face of unequal access to housing

The figures show that women in Europe and elsewhere are suffering the full brunt of the housing crisis. Housing is a strong social marker of gender inequalities. Indeed, discrimination and economic inequalities have a direct impact on the quality of women's housing. At the origin of this article and this presentation, a shared question translated into an exercise with a common instruction: « to write the life story of a woman who has experienced problems of precariousness linked to housing in her life course ». On arrival, 40 women's stories written by architecture students in the context of a habitat anthropology course. These stories allow us to put into perspective women's residential paths to identify the moments of rupture and their consequences, but also their needs and the methods of resourcefulness put in place to address the inequality of access to housing