Ayanna Pressley slams Republicans for defunding LGBTQ+ senior housing project

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Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) delivered a blistering speech on the House floor last week, taking her Republican colleagues to task for stripping funding from an affordable housing initiative aimed at LGBTQ+ seniors.

In March, Pressley requested $2 million in funding for The Pryde, a planned affordable senior housing development in her district, from the House Appropriations Committee during the Community Project Funding process. The project, which broke ground last year, will convert a former public school building in Boston’s Hyde Park area into 74 units of affordable housing specifically tailored to LGBTQ+ seniors.

As WBUR reported in July, the House Appropriations Committee’s Republican majority voted to strip $850,000 earmarked for The Pryde from a housing appropriations bill. Roll Call reported that Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) alleged that the project would discriminate against straight people. WBUR noted that…

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