So what were you doing before this? Like what kind of led you on this journey?

Well I didn't set out to be involved in property or spearheading a movement, nothing like that at all, but my background's in science and so that was the track that I was on all the way up until I came to university and did a PhD here and I really did think that academia was going to be my thing.

But a couple of things happened.

One was that I learned quite early on that academia wasn't the safe, secure employment type thing that I had initially thought it would be.

There's a lot of competition when it comes to academia and there's a phrase, publish or perish.

So you're only really deemed as good as the last paper that you published and the workload is really high.

And I think that one of the key things that I learned from that time as well was a female supervisor who was in her seventies and had worked all over the world.

So did you have any idea at that point how big the problem actually was with regards to women or housing affordability in general?

Yes.

So where we are at the moment is that we are building a co-living home for six older women.

So I say we're building, I'm bringing the women together to purchase that together.

And the minimum investment for that is $5,000.

And what that means is when we bring the women together, once we found the property, each woman will have a share in the property.

So it's what's called a tenants in common way of buying a property.

So you can do joint tenants or you can do tenants in common.

It's

But talk us through your solutions and what you see as possible.

Yeah, cool.

I set up Women for Homes 18 months ago and a bit of context, I was a consultant and I still am a consultant for firms and organisations that are looking to raise money for property projects with a focus on affordable and sustainable housing.

And so when I was going out capital raising for those kinds of projects, the minimum investment was $50,000.

And I was at an event at a retreat actually with women and it was a marketing and branding retreat.

And when I was sharing what I was doing, I had women coming up to me saying, that sounds amazing.

I'd love to get involved.

But dig into why it's important for you.