NYC opens first-in-the-nation homeless shelter for transgender people
Sean Ebony Coleman, founder and CEO of Destination Tomorrow, said Ace's Place is a 'hard-fought declaration that our Transgender and gender nonconforming siblings will no longer be pushed to the margins.'
'Ace's Place is a community-driven answer to systemic neglect, and it's only the beginning,' Coleman said in a statement.
Trans people disproportionately experience homelessness, in part due to facing more employment discrimination. The 2022 U.S. Trans Survey, the largest nationwide survey of trans people, with more than 90,000 respondents, found that 30% of respondents reported experiencing homelessness in their lifetimes. Eleven percent of those who had ever held a job said they had been fired, forced to resign, lost the job or been laid off because of their gender identity or expression. More than one-third (34%) of respondents were experiencing poverty.
Ace's Place is one of only two organizations in New York City that will provide housing for adults in the LGBTQ community. Nearly all of the city's LGBTQ shelters are for people under 25.
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- The Hill
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- New York Post
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