MIAMI: A low-cost housing program for LGBT seniors is about to commence.
The apartments offer a safe space for gay and lesbian retirees who might otherwise have nowhere else to turn except for facilities where lingering anti-LGBT bias creates the potential for a hostile living situation.
Many of the gay elders have neither the financial independence nor the support of family to retire worry-free.
The development is part of a long term trend towards the creation of special interest communities…