Gray havens.With increasing financial support, the development of retirement housing for the country's "gay and gray" population has shifted from a longtime dream to a growing reality. The Los Angeles-based Gay and Lesbian Elder Housing project received a $1 million gift in December from the Annenberg Foundation The Annenberg Foundation, a charitable family trust, was created on July 1, 1989 by media magnate and former Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Walter H. Annenberg. Initial funding of $1. toward the building of Encore Hall, the country's first nonprofit housing development for lower-income gay seniors. The $18.6 million project will break ground in February and will open in the summer of 2006. In New- Mexico, the $34 million for-profit RainbowVision Santa Fe Santa Fe, city, Argentina Santa Fe, city (1991 pop. 341,000), capital of Santa Fe prov., NE Argentina, a river port near the Paraná, with which it is connected by canal. community announced in early January that its construction is now fully financed; the project should be completed by the end of this year. "These are historic efforts we're malting malt n. 1. Grain, usually barley, that has been allowed to sprout, used chiefly in brewing and distilling. 2. An alcoholic beverage, such as beer or ale, brewed from malt. 3. See malted milk. v. because the gay community has yet to really focus on taking care of our elders," said Brian Neimark, executive director for GLEH GLEH Gay Lesbian Elder Housing (California) . |
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