LGBTQ-Friendly Senior Housing Now Open
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GAY ‘NURSE JACKIE’ STAR STEPHEN WALLEM PAGE 19 WINDY CITY THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 OCT. 8, 2014 VOL 30, NO. 2 TIMESwww.WindyCityMediaGroup.com LGBTQ-friendly senior housing now open BY MELISSA WASSERMAN Senior residents have moved into Center on Halsted and Heartland PRECIOUS Alliance’s new Town Hall Apartments at 3600 N. Halsted St. DAVIS LEAVES Standing as the Chicago area’s first LGBTQ-friendly, affordable senior living option, the facility has 79 one-bedroom and studio CENTER ON apartments that are occupied by 83 residents 55 years and older, HALSTED who continue to settle in and make their new living units home. PAGE 12 The doors opened for the move-in process late August with all the yearly leases signed by Sept. 12. “It is very diverse and it’s very much for the community that is in need of affordable housing,” said Modesto “Tico” Valle, Center on Halsted’s CEO. “It’s been very humbling to see seniors move in and to hear the news that they’ve been selected. As one senior put it, he felt like he won the lottery and he was in tears.” According to Kandyse McCoy Cunningham, director of property management for Heartland Housing, 440 people applied for the housing during the initial two-day pre-application session to qual- ify potential residents at Center on Halsted in May. Leases were to be offered and signed through the end of October, but due to the popularity of the project, the spaces filled up within a 15-day period, and sooner than expected. Turn to page 7 The entrance to Town Hall Apartments. 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But he said he doesn’t D.C. with marriage equality. think the high court would consider an appeal “We obviously need to get to a national reso- marriage challenges from a future circuit, such as the Ninth, which lution, so the magic number is 50 states plus,” BY LISA KEEN might agree with the previous circuits. said GLAD’s Bonauto, “not 30.” KEEN NEWS SERVICE Davidson said there is a way that the six Openly gay U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D- states in the Fourth, Seventh, and Tenth cir- Wisc.) called the Supreme Court announcement In a surprise development, the U.S. Supreme cuits—who were not part of the Oct. 6 batch Monday a “huge victory.” Court announced Oct. 6 it would not accept of seven cases—could try to avoid or delay “Love is love, family is family, and discrimi- for review any of the seven appeals on same- allowing same-sex couples to marry in those nating against anyone’s love, against anyone’s sex marriage bans from five states. The action states. He said a state, such as South Carolina, family, is not only wrong, it’s unconstitution- means that the stays placed on lower court de- could try and appeal an existing case to the al,” said Baldwin, in a press release. This is a cisions in all five states—decisions that struck full circuit bench in hopes of getting a differ- huge step forward for our entire country being down bans on marriage for same-sex couples— ent decision than that issued by the circuit’s a place where every family’s love and commit- are immediately lifted, making way for lower three-judge panel.