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In race to house homeless, LA makes space for transgender women
Curbed LA ^ | November 19, 2019 | Jessica Flores

Posted on 11/21/2019 8:14:36 AM PST by EdnaMode

Next month, more than a dozen women are set to move into a blush pink Craftsman home in the Koreatown area. They’ll be the first residents in the county’s first publicly funded “bridge” shelter for homeless transgender women.

The shelter is named for Zulma Velasquez, a former staff member with APAIT, a behavioral health and HIV/AIDS service provider, who died in August. Velasquez used to host weekly coffee talks called “Cafecito with Zulma” at APAIT’s office in Koreatown with queer and transgender community members to discuss the issues they face.

Jake Weinraub, a clinical program manager with APAIT, which will help manage the shelter, says the organization intends to carry on Velasquez’s beloved tradition.

“We’re hoping to build a pretty regular schedule of programming here with ritual and sort of consistency for the residents,” he says.

Casa de Zulma holds 16 beds and will provide supportive services, including psychotherapy and substance use support. Residents will be allowed to stay for 90 days, with the option to extend, says Weinraub.

APAIT will manage the property with the Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care System (HOPICS), a South LA homeless services agency. APAIT will help residents find permanent housing while HOPICS will provide daily behavioral and life skills programming.

“We recognized early on that it is critical to provide safe spaces for vulnerable populations like the transgender community,” Veronica Lewis, director of HOPICS, said in a statement. “We hope this is the first step to expanding purposeful and intentional efforts from the public sector.”

The home was previously used for women sobriety programs and was converted to homeless housing with $408,000 in funding from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.

Located in Councilman Herb Wesson’s district, Casa de Zulma is “leading the way in Los Angeles County as the first transgender housing for homeless women,” Wesson said in a statement.

“With open arms we welcome Casa de Zulma and all of its residents to the 10th District, and thank them for protecting these members of our community.”

Casa de Zulma will open as hate crimes against the LGBTQ and transgender communities are increasing. According to the FBI’s crime statistics report released last week, the number of crimes targeting transgender and gender nonconforming people nationally spiked 41 percent since last year.

“We are prone to violence, homelessness, substance abuse, and mental illness,” Jazzmun Crayton, a health and policy coordinator with APAIT, said in a statement. “We have to build alliances, acquire resources, and create safe affordable spaces to dwell and live in.”


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: california; homelessness; homosexualagenda; losangeles; transgender
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Amazing how such a tiny percentage of the population gets so much coverage by the media.
1 posted on 11/21/2019 8:14:36 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

how much money was wasted on becoming transgender on their way to becoming homeless?


2 posted on 11/21/2019 8:18:01 AM PST by ghost of nixon
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To: EdnaMode

OK...Is a transgender woman a woman who says she’s a man or a man who says he’s a woman???


3 posted on 11/21/2019 8:23:08 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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LeGaBiT

The LeGaBiTs could be housed in a mental asylum, certainly away from the homeless women.


4 posted on 11/21/2019 8:23:13 AM PST by TheNext (LeGaBiT)
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To: EdnaMode
Transgender "women" really are more likely to be homeless than real women. Something about mental illness and substance abuse.
5 posted on 11/21/2019 8:29:03 AM PST by Salman (The Democrat agenda in one word -- revenge.)
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To: ghost of nixon

They must think that some rich guy is going to “marry” them? Or that they are going to become supermodels?


6 posted on 11/21/2019 8:47:47 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: JBW1949

A man who says he is a woman.


7 posted on 11/21/2019 9:05:50 AM PST by EdnaMode
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Thanks...I get confused when they talk about what they are...LOL


8 posted on 11/21/2019 9:07:34 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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The easiest way to remember which way the flow goes for "transgendered" individuals is to replace the word "transgender" or "trans" with the word "fake". Thus, "transgender women" becomes "fake women" ...

Easy, peasy ... I first heard this here on FR ...

9 posted on 11/21/2019 9:10:49 AM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: BlueLancer

That works!!!! Thanks...


10 posted on 11/21/2019 9:13:19 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: EdnaMode
New Cali state flag unveiled.

The runner up inner picture was:


11 posted on 11/21/2019 9:15:06 AM PST by Boomer (Epstein didn't kill himself...)
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To: EdnaMode

Providing free housing will always draw more people than can be accommodated which will continue to exacerbate the problem and make things worse, which is what the liberals appear determined to do. “If you build it, they will come “.


12 posted on 11/21/2019 9:27:00 AM PST by Spok
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To: JBW1949

Just remember whichever transgender gender they say is actually the other one.


13 posted on 11/21/2019 9:53:11 AM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: ghost of nixon

How about costing $408,000 to convert an old house to 16 beds?


14 posted on 11/21/2019 9:54:53 AM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: EdnaMode

If you were a homeless man, tossing on a wig would be a small price to pay to get to stay for free in a nice swanky place like this instead of getting crammed into the barracks-style shelters with all the druggies who will steal your shoes.


15 posted on 11/21/2019 10:00:33 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: EdnaMode

Imagine having this carnival coming to your neighborhood!


16 posted on 11/21/2019 12:07:20 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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Once again, the phrase "transgender woman." Is that a woman who is transgendering as a man? Or is that a man who pretends to be a woman?

Likely the latter? Because the media are playing along. They're admitting it's not a real woman, just a "transgender" woman.

I stopped by walmart tonight for some beef broth. I saw the ugliest woman I've ever seen. Except, it wasn't a woman. And he had a walmart vest on. He didn't look happy either. Another walmart employee was laughing.

This is Oklahoma for pete's sake.

17 posted on 11/21/2019 7:04:15 PM PST by LouAvul
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“ Is a transgender woman a woman who says she’s a man or a man who says he’s a woman???”

Yes.

L


18 posted on 11/21/2019 7:08:09 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: LouAvul

A “transgender woman” is a biological man who claims to be a woman. Oh wow, in Oklahoma? That’s surprising.


19 posted on 11/23/2019 2:24:40 PM PST by EdnaMode
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Oklahoma has had an influx of liberal pukes from all over. kalifornia. new york. Virginia. It's a virtual invasion.

And that's not even taking into the chinese, vietnamese, messycans, etc.

At this rate in ten years OK will be blue.

20 posted on 11/23/2019 4:18:39 PM PST by LouAvul
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