Shelby County invests in transitional housing for Black transgender women
Kayla Rena Gore (center right), co-founder of My Sistah’s House, and Jerri Green (center left), senior policy advisor for Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, hug during a ceremony where the county invested $194,000 in transitional housing for My Sistah’s House. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
My Sistah’s House provides housing, advocacy and resource assistance for the Memphis area’s LGBTQ community with an emphasis on Black transgender women, who are reported to experience homelessness at a rate of more than five times the national average.
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LGBTQ homelessness Mayor Lee Harris My Sistah's HouseAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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