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New Possibilities NEW DEVELOPMENTS In 2023, Opportunity House, a new nonprofit that provides low-
Opportunity House
opportunityhousestl.org
barrier housing to young people experiencing homelessness, partnered with the Tower Grove Community Development Corporation, and began placing LGBTQIA+ unhoused young people into a newly rehabbed multi-family building in St. Louis's Tower Grove South Neighborhood. Construction on a second building is underway. These units will provide queer and trans young people with desperately needed housing options while at the same time providing social services and helping foster a supportive community.
In 2023, DOORWAYS, an existing interfaith nonprofit that provides housing and supportive services to people living with HIV/AIDS, broke ground on a new housing project, located on the new Doorways campus in North St. Louis City. This newest development will contain 39 apartments set aside for individuals who are affected by HIV/AIDS and who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. The new apartments' location within the new Doorways Campus will allow tenants easy access to included on-site case management and behavioral health and health screening services.
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NEW ADVOCATES Tent Mission STL formed in 2020, at the start of the COVID19 lockdowns, to provide St. Louis's unhoused communities with individual tents for better social distancing. TMSTL, a majority-queer-and-trans mutual aid collective, @tentmission_stl Tent Mission STL
continues to do direct street outreach to their unhoused neighbors by providing food, clothing, survival, and harm reduction supplies, while building long-lasting relationships. Rooted in a radical queer framework, Tent Mission has mobilized grassroots activists to take direct action in order to disrupt the systems that harm unhoused St. Louisans.
