03: The Price of Home

Neen worries about her partner's reaction when they separate, and as Kiara's marriage ends, her feelings of shame and failure begin. Both women feel the effects of a lack of affordable housing and a lifetime of women's economic disadvantage. In the meantime, Mary falls in love with the erratic and abusive Jimmy, and gives birth to her first child.

We look at housing as a human right, Australia's tenancy laws, housing affordability stress and the strategies used to trap women in abusive relationships.