Stonewall Community Development Corporation
par FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC
The mission of Stonewall Community Development Corporation is to see LGBTQ+ older adults in safe welcoming housing they can afford with access to health and mental health services that meet their unique needs.
The generation that fought the Stonewall Rebellion for our rights is aging and vulnerable. Many do not have children to care for them. They face a senior services industry that is often openly hostile. Too many live in poverty, and many are isolated and alone. We believe every LGBTQ+ senior deserves a safe, welcoming home they can afford and access to respectful health and mental health care that meets their unique needs.
We provide long-term solutions for the community and immediate assistance for people in crisis.
Our LGBTQ+ Community is the solution. We have the shared lived experience of the lifelong fight for respect. We have a history of building community networks of care and support. We have creativity, resilience and resources. And we have baby boomers with appreciated real estate assets, no one to take care of them and no one to inherit their assets.
Stonewall CDC will provide the younger generation with paths to equity by training them in careers serving their elders. We will provide our seniors with loving care and the opportunity to participate in building a community legacy of perpetually affordable homes.
Through our Housing Assistance Program, we help elders to navigate the City’s affordable housing lotteries and ensure access to the benefits to which they are entitled. Through City contracts we find permanent housing for families with housing vouchers.
We convene cross-sector working groups with end-users to explore, document and develop potential housing and service innovations that respond with agility to the accelerating housing crisis and the policy workarounds or changes that will be needed to implement those strategies on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community.
Programs
Leave No Veteran Behind
Housing Assistance Program
Housing Voucher Placement
The Stonewall Bridge
Community Properties Portfolio
Shangrila LLC
