Jan 5, 2024 08:10 PM
The new wave of LGBTQ+ only housing coming to the UK supporters say helps 'marginalised people' but critics believe is just 'virtue-signalling'
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INTRO: A new wave of LGBTQ+ housing is coming to the UK amid concerns about the 'deadliest rise' in homophobic attacks in a decade. London has already seen its first residential hub for elderly members of the LGBTQ+ community opening up, following a £3million grant from city mayor, Sadiq Khan.
The fancy apartment block, built by Tonic Housing, overlooks Westminster and is a stone's throwaway from Vauxhall, Waterloo and Tate Britain. Over the summer, another group - First Brick Housing - received backing for its plan to build homes for 'marginalised' gay Londoners to ensure LGBTQ+ people are 'free from oppression', with City Hall stumping up £5,000 towards it.
Meanwhile, in Manchester, a proposal to construct a purpose-built, LGBTQ+ majority housing site for the over-55s was unveiled this week, in what city leaders and activists hailed as a 'landmark' scheme.
Critics have accused supporters of the new schemes of 'virtue-signalling causes based on fashion and not need'. But campaigners insist the need has never been greater and comes amid a worrying surge in homophobic attacks.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation are up by 112 per cent in the last five years, with Home Office statistics finding homophobic hate crimes ballooned by 41 per cent in 2022. It was branded the 'deadliest' rise in violence against gay people in a decade, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe).
Meanwhile, the recent report 'No Place Like Home?' – which surveyed and spoke to 260 LGBTQ residents – found that 32 per cent felt their neighbourhood was not a safe place to live in as an LGBTQ person.
While in 2020 a survey by Tonic of 624 LGBTQ+ Londoners over 50, found 56 per cent would favour living in an LGBTQ retirement community compared to just one per cent who would consider moving to general retirement scheme.
At the Tonic accommodation hub in the capital, residents there say they feel safer being in an 'affirmative community' together with other LGBTQ+ people... (MORE - deetails)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...lling.html
INTRO: A new wave of LGBTQ+ housing is coming to the UK amid concerns about the 'deadliest rise' in homophobic attacks in a decade. London has already seen its first residential hub for elderly members of the LGBTQ+ community opening up, following a £3million grant from city mayor, Sadiq Khan.
The fancy apartment block, built by Tonic Housing, overlooks Westminster and is a stone's throwaway from Vauxhall, Waterloo and Tate Britain. Over the summer, another group - First Brick Housing - received backing for its plan to build homes for 'marginalised' gay Londoners to ensure LGBTQ+ people are 'free from oppression', with City Hall stumping up £5,000 towards it.
Meanwhile, in Manchester, a proposal to construct a purpose-built, LGBTQ+ majority housing site for the over-55s was unveiled this week, in what city leaders and activists hailed as a 'landmark' scheme.
Critics have accused supporters of the new schemes of 'virtue-signalling causes based on fashion and not need'. But campaigners insist the need has never been greater and comes amid a worrying surge in homophobic attacks.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation are up by 112 per cent in the last five years, with Home Office statistics finding homophobic hate crimes ballooned by 41 per cent in 2022. It was branded the 'deadliest' rise in violence against gay people in a decade, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe).
Meanwhile, the recent report 'No Place Like Home?' – which surveyed and spoke to 260 LGBTQ residents – found that 32 per cent felt their neighbourhood was not a safe place to live in as an LGBTQ person.
While in 2020 a survey by Tonic of 624 LGBTQ+ Londoners over 50, found 56 per cent would favour living in an LGBTQ retirement community compared to just one per cent who would consider moving to general retirement scheme.
At the Tonic accommodation hub in the capital, residents there say they feel safer being in an 'affirmative community' together with other LGBTQ+ people... (MORE - deetails)