Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) delivered a blistering speech on the House floor last week, taking her Republican colleagues to task for stripping funding from an affordable housing initiative aimed at LGBTQ+ seniors.
In March, Pressley requested $2 million in funding for The Pryde, a planned affordable senior housing development in her district, from the House Appropriations Committee during the Community Project Funding process. The project, which broke ground last year, will convert a former public school building in Boston’s Hyde Park area into 74 units of affordable housing specifically tailored to LGBTQ+ seniors. […]
Click here to read the full piece. This story was originally published by LGBTQ Nation on November 13, 2023.
