This is the National Housing Initiative website portal, a repository of resources on the development of LGBTQ+ affordable senior housing. Here you’ll find links to a range of material for developers, builders, elders, and community members.
Understanding the Affordable Housing Development Process: A Primer: This booklet outlines models of LGBTQ+ affirming affordable senior housing across the country, showcasing how buildings have come to fruition nationwide.
Housing Development Trainings: These free trainings cover a range of topics on LGBTQ+ affordable housing development, including issues such as fair housing law, reaching tenants in need, trauma-informed design, intersectional cultural competency, and other strategies and best practices for project success.
SAGE’s case study on the two New York City housing developments, Stonewall House in Brooklyn and Crotona Pride House in the Bronx. This chronicles SAGE’s own housing development journey, highlighting successes, challenges, and best practices.
Housing Development Toolkit: This housing development toolkit includes helpful tips on LGBTQ+ affirming housing development, community outreach strategies, strategies to build buy-in, fair-housing marketing methods, best practices for intentional building design, key cultural competency considerations, and more!