Baltimore City Health Department issued the following announcement on Sept. 18.
Diane Battle sat by a dining room table, her husband Earnest Battle looking at her attentively. The couple had moved into the house a little over a month ago, but the white-colored brick building with a green door felt like home from their first day.
“The atmosphere ... was just so nice, you know, it was a warm feeling,” Diane Battle said. “I knew that from the get-go.”
“We’re doing very well. Probably the best we’ve been yet.”
The Battles are among the first residents helped by a Baltimore Safe Haven housing program dedicated to transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and nonbinary people over the age of 40. The program, dubbed Legacy House, provides Baltimoreans in that community who are experiencing homelessness with shelter, food, clothing and other services, including access to hygiene kits, HIV testing and peer educators, with a goal of helping them eventually secure permanent housing like the Battles.
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Source: Baltimore City Health Department
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