We Want To Live, Not Hide’: Inside New York City’s First LGBT Elder Housing Project

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March 9, 2019

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When it opens in the late summer the 145-unit Ingersoll Senior Residences (ISR) will be New York City’s first affordable LGBT-welcoming senior housing development. Its first residents will move in around the same time as the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which happened within their lifetimes and which some remember very vividly. It will also be the largest such residence in the United States.

Read the full article here. Read more about Bright Power’s role in the project here.

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