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He didn't let anything take him out. It’s not an uncommon story and one that leads to many young LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning) people facing homelessness. Seniors come in and say they are about to lose their home. We have formed a partnership with WJC”s Center Lane and the LOFT. He was gay and I was straight.
http://www.lgbtlifewestchester.org/housing
http://www.lgbtlifewestchester.org/legal_resources
Westchester's only LGBTQ specific homeless resource:
Hope Community Services The Refuge
50 Washington Ave.
New Rochelle, NY 10801
(914) 636-4010
www.hopecommunityservices.org
The Refuge
The Refuge is a housing program specifically for LGBTQ youth between the ages of 18 and 24.
So it was bittersweet. “It’s hard to be in a space with all that going on and you’re still trying to navigate your life and make the right decisions.”
According to the National Runaway Safeline, a hotline established in 1971 to provide crisis intervention for young people, the most common issues it dealt with in 2020 were related to family dynamics, followed by abuse and neglect.
I need to get in as much as I can before I really have no help.
— Tryron Ramsey
During her first address to the L.A. City Council in January 2020, Council President Nury Martinez acknowledged the need for resources that address the needs of young LGBTQ+ people.
“Our LGBTQ youth who are shunned sometimes by their own family members also have a high percentage of homelessness if we don't assist them,” Martinez said.
Ten months, and about six apartment visits later, we finally signed a lease on the 2-bedroom apartment that I am typing this post from now.
We have been here for 5 months, still both working our jobs, paying our rent on time, and leading pretty good lives. That is needed on an organizational level. For older people, severed family ties can mean a lack of access to capital for a down payment, which is often cited as a major barrier to home ownership,” explains Luis A.
Vasquez, Daniel H. Renberg Law Fellow at The Williams Institute, UCLA, School of Law. Vasquez is one of the authors, along with Adam P. Romero and Shoshana K. Goldberg, of the report LGBT People and Housing Affordability, Discrimination and Homelessness that was published by the Williams Institute in April 2020. We did our best to conceal it, but there wasn't a day that went by that didn't feel completely embarrassing.
Ray was out of the area, so I quickly offered to show him around the city.
We connect them to legal services.
Age Does Not Protect
More mature LGBTQ people are also at risk of homelessness.
Courtesy of Tryron Ramsey
)When Ramsey arrived at the Anita May Rosenstein Campus of the LA LGBT Center, he said he was out of his comfort zone.
“I’d never been around people who were going through the same exact experience that I was going through, and it was hard to open up,” he said. Rules don't bother me.
“The only options are only-male or only-female, which is a bit of a struggle. Thanksgiving dinner was prepared and donated by strangers who stayed and shared the meal.
“It was people that I knew grew up very different from how I grew up,” he said.