Riverside Housing in Manchester has opened up a new short-term accommodation service for homeless people who identify as LGBTQ+.
The service has opened up six flats, with the aim of providing a safe space to help LGBTQ people escape discrimination. Explaining the purpose of the set of flats, Eleanor Watts, an area manager for Riverside Housing, said: “We are delighted to be opening this new homelessness service for people in the LGBTQ+ community so they can feel safe and secure and without fear of discrimination, while giving them the freedom to be who they are. “Many people identifying as LGBTQ+ can end up homeless due to a variety of reasons such as losing their job or a family breakdown after coming out so they have little or no support