Nola.com: Planned refuge for New Orleans' homeless transgender people would be first of its kind in U.S.
A plan is underway to buy a small batch of rundown houses along North Claiborne Avenue in the 8th Ward and convert them into living space for homeless transgender and gender non-conforming people. The $1 million project, called the House of Tulip, would be the first of its kind in the country.
The House of Tulip, for "Trans United Leading Intersectional Progress," grew out of a coronavirus relief effort. At the start of the COVID-19 crisis, a group of trans activists set out to raise money to help gender non-conforming people who’d lost their jobs in the hospitality and service industries during the self-quarantine. The success of that effort inspired two activists, Mariah Moore and Milan Nicole Sherry, to seek a way to create something more permanent.