Top Websites Helping With LGBT+ Homelessness

UNITED KINGDOM

• Albert Kennedy Trust - https://www.akt.org.uk/

The Albert Kennedy Trust (akt) is an organisation that seeks to help, and house, LGBT+ homeless people, particularly young people. As well as this, they offer to help find training, education, or employment for these young people, to ensure that they can escape homelessness and other hostile environments. akt does a lot of research into LGBT+ homelessness also, and produces considerable data on the matter.

• Stonewall Housing - https://stonewallhousing.org/

Stonewall Housing is a project aimed at helping provide LGBT+ people safe housing. From providing training, to launching campaigns to increase the provision of service to LGBT+ people facing domestic abuse, Stonewall HOME utilise a number of initiatives to improve the lives of LGBT+ people and provide outstanding care for the homeless members of our community, or those who are facing it.

• LGBT+ Youth Commission https://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/national-programmes/youth-activism/youth-commission-housing-and-homelessness/

The LGBT+ Youth Commission on Housing and Homelessness was set up in 2016 in response to data from the AKT to further review it and what could be done. Carrying out further research of its own, the Commission made a number of findings and is now working with local authorities and representatives of the Government in Scotland to make sure that provisions for young LGBT+ homeless people are properly implemented.

• The Outside Project - https://lgbtiqoutside.org/

The Outside Project is an LGBT+ shelter for homeless people that helps provide vital services and gets LGBT+ people off of the streets. Through its crowdfunding, and work with other charities like Stonewall Housing, it helps in providing a place of refuge for LGBT+ people no matter their situation. They’ve even put together a manifesto of what they want from the next London mayor to help homeless LGBT+ people in the city.

UNITED STATES

• Los Angeles LGBT Center - https://lalgbtcenter.org/social-service-and-housing/youth/homelessness

The Los Angeles LGBT Centre has been active since 1969 and is caring, championing and celebrating the LGBT+ community. It helps LGBT+ youth experiencing homelessness in L.A., providing them with temporary housing, food, HIV testing and counselling, education programs, employment programs and many more.

• True Colors United - https://truecolorsunited.org/

True Colors United believe in a world where “every LGBTQ young person, wherever they live, is celebrated for being their authentic selves”. LGBT+ youth are 120% more likely to experience homelessness and they are trying to change that. Through a wide array of advocacy, training & education, youth collaboration, and technical assistance programs, True Colors United implements innovative solutions to youth homelessness that focus on the unique experiences of LGBTQ young people.

• New Alternatives - https://www.newalternativesnyc.org/

Aiming in providing a smooth transition out of the shelter system to a more stable adult life, New Alternatives provide long-term support LGBT+ homeless youth by increasing their self-sufficiency. They provide shelter, meals, hygiene supplies emergency clothing, educational services, life skills training, opportunities for self-expression and more.

• Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing -http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/

The Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing strives to make homelessness in San Francisco rare, brief, and one time. Active since 2016, it helps with homelessness in general and also targets LGBT+ homelessness specifically. It combines key homeless serving programs and contracts in it’s way to preventing and eliminating homelessness in the state.

• National Coalition for the Homeless -https://nationalhomeless.org/issues/lgbt/

NCH is a campaign that seeks to raise awareness of homelessness and campaign for the end of it. Their section on LGBT+ homelessness provides a history on the matter, an examination of how LGBT+ uniquely fare when homeless, and advice on what you can do to be an advocate for LGBT+ homeless people. Their advice includes helping to ensure schools can be safe spaces, recognising the depth of challenges for LGBT+ homeless people, and expanding the housing options.

AUSTRALIA

• Twenty10 - https://www.twenty10.org.au/

Twenty 10 provides information and support to LGBT+ people who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness. They provide young LGBT+ people with medium-term accommodation (12-18 months) who want to work on a plan to increase their opportunities for both stable housing as well as employment. It focuses on LGBT+ youth who are either employed, studying or in training and help them transition from assisted living (such as refuge) to living independently.

FRANCE

• La Fondation Le Refuge - https://www.le-refuge.org/fondation

The objective of Le Fondation Le Refuge is to prevent the isolation and suicide of LGBT+ youths who have been victims of either homophobia or transphobia within their families. Active for 17 years, Le Refuge provides shelter for young LGBT+ people and helps them reconstruct their emotional and physical state.

ITALY

• Centro LGBT Del Mediterraneo - https://www.facebook.com/centrolgbtmediterraneo/

The Centro LGBT Del Mediterranean is an initiative to protect LGBT+ migrants in Italy. After a mafia villa was seised by the authorities, it was handed over to an LGBT+ group who turned it into a shelter for LGBT+ migrants in Italy. It provides accommodation, a job counselling centre and a cultural space.

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