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Lucy Hicks Anderson Housing Support

“A reported 41% of Black Transgender people say they have experienced some form of homelessness at some point in their lives”  – National LGBT Taskforce, 2021

https://www.glaad.org/blog/kayla-gore-black-trans-woman-lead-end-homelessness-and-hiv-prevalence-black-trans-women

Summary

Lucy Hicks Anderson housing program (LHA) is an eighteen-month transitional housing program centering BIPOC Trans people. This program is for BIPOC Trans people experiencing homelessness and/or housing instability. The LHA housing program will be a client-centered, trauma-informed program with the intent of breaking cycles of homelessness and/or housing instability. Implementing an intensive empowerment initiative program called Transcendence will provide many resources, skills, and real-life education components to strengthen the participants’ likelihood of maintaining sustainable housing. 

Transcendence

Transcendence is an intensive empowerment initiative being built for the community by the community. Historically, housing case management has perpetuated systematic abuse against Trans and gender-expansive people. In response, Transcendence will intentionally break the cycles of homelessness and housing instability for BIPOC Trans communities. 

Program Goals

Housing is prevention; participants in the Lucy Hicks Anderson Housing Program will show decreased rates of HIV+ diagnoses in Chicago and lower homelessness rates in the Trans communities while addressing high levels of unemployment.

Current Housing Services Offered

While developing our housing program, BSA will offer emergency housing relief services for LGBTQ+ individuals while prioritizing BIPOC TGNC individuals. If you need housing resources and assistance or have any questions or concerns, please contact our Housing Program Manager, Reyna Ortiz.

Emergency Housing Form
a picture of a black women with and afro wearing a yellow hat white pearls and peach jacket with a white shirt. the words Lucy hicks Anderson are under her.
a picture of a black women with and afro wearing a yellow hat white pearls and peach jacket with a white shirt. the words Lucy hicks Anderson are under her.

Lucy stated, “I defy any doctor in the world to prove that I am not a woman. I have lived, dressed, acted just like what I am, a woman.”

Lucy stated, “I defy any doctor in the world to prove that I am not a woman. I have lived, dressed, acted just like what I am, a woman.”

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