(The Center Square) – San Francisco city officials announced Wednesday they would launch a new guaranteed income program for the city’s transgender community.
The program, dubbed the Guaranteed Income for Trans People (GIFT), will provide 55, low-income transgender city residents with $1,200 each month for up to 18 months. The pilot program is the first of its kind for trans individuals in the city, though San Francisco has launched several other programs in recent years.
“Our Guaranteed Income Programs allow us to help our residents when they need it most as part of our City’s economic recovery and our commitment to creating a more just city for all,” Mayor London Breed said in a statement. “We know that our trans communities experience much higher rates of poverty and discrimination, so this program will target support to lift individuals in this community up. We will keep building on programs like this to provide those in the greatest need with the financial resources and services to help them thrive.”
According to the 2015 U.S. Trans Survey, 33% of trans Californians were living in poverty, a rate that was higher than the general population’s poverty rate of 12%. City officials said the individuals selected for the program will receive temporary income and “wrap-around direct services” like gender affirming health care, case management and financial coaching.
The city allocated $2 million over two years for the program, and it was funded as part of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development budget in the 2021-2022 fiscal year, according to the mayor’s office.
The GIFT program will be the third guaranteed income framework the city has launched in recent years. In 2020, the city launched a program to offer $1,000 monthly payments to qualifying pregnant people who were Black or Pacific Islander starting in the first trimester and lasting through two years postpartum. Then, in 2021, the city launched a pilot program to offer $1,000 monthly payments for up to 18 months to San Francisco artists impacted by the pandemic.
Applications for the GIFT program are being accepted now through Dec. 15.
San Francisco is not the only city in California rolling out the program. Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Times reported that city of Palm Springs opted to allocate $200,000 for a guaranteed income pilot program for transgender and nonbinary residents.
“According to the 2015 U.S. Trans Survey, 33% of trans Californians were living in poverty, a rate that was higher than the general population’s poverty rate of 12%.”
Transgender adults in California have about the same poverty and education levels as people who identify as the gender they were assigned at birth, but they are more likely to be white and to be struggling with suicidal impulses, according to a new UCLA study.
The report, which is being released Tuesday as part of UCLA’s annual California Health Interview Survey, found that there are an estimated 92,000 transgender adults in California, or 0.35 percent of the state’s over-18 population. San Francisco with the highest proportion of 0.70%.
Other findings were unexpected. They included the narrow differences in poverty levels between transgender and cisgender adults — those who identify with their birth-assigned gender. Thirty-two percent of transgender adults live below the poverty line, the survey indicated, compared with 28 percent of cisgender adults.
If you’re homeless in San Francisco, it may help not to identify as male or female.
Yesterday, the mayor announced a new project. San Francisco will be the first U.S. city to commit to ending transgender homelessness.
Never mind that total homelessness is at levels unseen just 10 years ago. Forget about the drug crisis and overdose deaths that have reached record highs in recent years, accounting for 82% of the city’s homeless deaths during the COVID lockdown. The mayor has a plan.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced yesterday that her two-year budget proposal will include $6.5 million to end transgender homelessness by 2027. Of this, $6 million will go directly toward short-term rental subsidies, financial assistance, and funding for “non-profit providers serving TGNC residents.”
Also included in the proposal are 150 long-term housing subsidies; a new “Permanent Supportive Housing” site for TGNC, LGBT, and transition-age youth; and $500,000 for TGNC “behavioral health services.”
AND exactly what the hell do they consider “living in poverty”>>>
Taking honest earned tax dollars and giving it to unearning social failures based on sexual orientation,,, is never to be called a guaranteed earned income, but guaranteed criminal theft, by a political party of thieves who hide behind stolen votes, warped sexual orientations that reveal them to be the sick twisted sisters they are, who belong locked up in either well-earned mental wards or jail cells,,,too stupid to not steal behind the scenes and under their ********* soiled blankets of media covering like in their past, now so open and blatant that the truths that set us free of them cannot help but accelerate their own found out self-revealing self-destruction, who beguiled themselves that WE THE PEOPLE would embrace the abnormalities of their immoralities. Just watch as the cleansing light of truth kills the political bacteria they seek to spread. COVID lesson learned.
Where;s the lawsuits for THIS VIOLATING title 9?? OR the equal protection clause of the 14th??
you’re more likely to be white and suicidal. also now Jewish and suicidal. and you don’t even have to be transgendered to feel that way. we can all feel that way every time we turn on the teevee or look at the news so called which is not actually news although there is someone reading something. the same something all the other not news readers are also reading, eliminating everything the American people are actually interested in and need to know. suicide is become very popular. or, moving to a solidly red solidly open carry weapons state with a budget that includes firearms training and handling. so either wwwlll or civil war is in the cards depending on which comes first. there is no second.
Maybe I should go to San Fairysisco and tell them that I identify as a 1/4 Black, 1/4 Hispanic, 1/4 Oriental and 1/4 American Indian transsexual atheist who wants to do a study on how the mating habits of bullfrogs affects the rate of migration of illegal alien homosexuals into Bolivia. They’ll probably give me $10K a day tax free for the rest of my life!
Sounds like a plan, to me.
“Pregnant people”? Really? Don’t adopt the left’s idiotic language.
Transgender people are mentally ill. We need to have the compassion to get them the care they need not feed their delusions! Would you agree with a person that has anorexia that they are fat and need to continue to starve themselves?
It’s no wonder that people are leaving CA and specifically San Fran in droves.
So let it be funded by NEWSON’S bank account and his winery. No problem, leave the taxpayers money alone!
REQUIRE It to be funded BY THE personal wealth Of every LIBTARD IN Commiefornia. NOT tax payer funds.