Campaign against Trans homelessness
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Inspired by the incredible work of the Trans Housing Coalition in Atlanta, with your help we hope to provide permanent housing for trans individuals suffering from a lack of affordable and safe housing in the UK.
Talking amongst ourselves, we – all of us trans - realised that there wasn't a single one of us who hadn't at some point or another struggled with homelessness. Even those of us who had since done reasonably well for ourselves had all been left at the mercy of hostels, a friend allowing us to spend a few months on their couch or forced into debt to keep a roof over our heads. Several of us hadn't even had that, forced into sleeping on the streets. We are lucky that we got out, but many of our community haven't.
Poverty is a disease in the trans community, especially among people of colour. With the economic crisis caused by the pandemic, another 5 years of Tory rule and the increasing demonisation of trans people by both the far right and those who purport to be feminists, we can expect the opportunities afforded to our community to become only more and more scarce.
To stop the safety of trans individuals being stripped from them on the whims of the bigoted, we hope to set up housing for trans people by trans people. We aim to buy a house with multiple rooms – as many as we can afford! - and renovate it so that it is suitable for our trans brothers and sisters to call a home. We wish to stay realistic and aim for just one house currently, but if this first goal is met we will look to expand and open up further homes.
To do this we need your help. To buy a house and renovate it, we need funds which we currently don't have. If you can spare any money at all, you can help to alleviate some of the chronic homelessness faced by the trans community. Your money won't be going to “raising awareness” or research projects that don't go anywhere, it will be going directly to putting a roof over the heads of some of society's most at-risk people.
Talking amongst ourselves, we – all of us trans - realised that there wasn't a single one of us who hadn't at some point or another struggled with homelessness. Even those of us who had since done reasonably well for ourselves had all been left at the mercy of hostels, a friend allowing us to spend a few months on their couch or forced into debt to keep a roof over our heads. Several of us hadn't even had that, forced into sleeping on the streets. We are lucky that we got out, but many of our community haven't.
Poverty is a disease in the trans community, especially among people of colour. With the economic crisis caused by the pandemic, another 5 years of Tory rule and the increasing demonisation of trans people by both the far right and those who purport to be feminists, we can expect the opportunities afforded to our community to become only more and more scarce.
To stop the safety of trans individuals being stripped from them on the whims of the bigoted, we hope to set up housing for trans people by trans people. We aim to buy a house with multiple rooms – as many as we can afford! - and renovate it so that it is suitable for our trans brothers and sisters to call a home. We wish to stay realistic and aim for just one house currently, but if this first goal is met we will look to expand and open up further homes.
To do this we need your help. To buy a house and renovate it, we need funds which we currently don't have. If you can spare any money at all, you can help to alleviate some of the chronic homelessness faced by the trans community. Your money won't be going to “raising awareness” or research projects that don't go anywhere, it will be going directly to putting a roof over the heads of some of society's most at-risk people.
Organizer
Jenni A
Organizer
England
