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Discuss the size and characteristics of the population with HIV/AIDS and their families within the Eligible Metropolitan Statistical Area: From Stacie
Walls of LGB Life Center sent 3.26.25
LGBT Life Center is the largest HIV housing provider in the region and the state. The need to provide this amount of housing is an example of how individuals
with HIV are extremely vulnerable and experience homelessness. LGBT Life Center currently administers eight (8) different housing grant programs to
serve individuals who are living with HIV and are unhoused or at risk of being unhoused.
LGBT Life Center provides Permanent Supportive Housing for persons living with HIV on the Peninsula (GVPHC Continuum of Care). They have administered
this grant for 22 years. Additionally, LGBT Life Center is the lead agency for HOPWA, Housing Opportunities for Persons With HIV. Newport News is included
in both these grants to exclusively serve individuals with HIV. LGBT Life Center currently serves almost 300 households a year with housing assistance of
some type.
Individuals who are HIV+ and unhoused have poor health outcomes and in the case of HIV, it can quickly lead to an increase in HIV infections in the
community. Housing is healthcare and ensuring people with health issues are housed, ensures healthier communities. We are able to measure HIV viral
load upon entry into the housing programs. After being housed, and engaging in continuous medical care, the HIV viral load decreases to an undetectable
level. People can live long, healthy lives with HIV as long as they have access to housing, healthcare and health education. LGBT Life Center provides those
services.
If the PJ will establish a preference for a HOME TBRA activity for persons with a specific category of disabilities (e.g., persons with HIV/AIDS or
chronic mental illness), describe their unmet need for housing and services needed to narrow the gap in benefits and services received by such
persons. (See 24 CFR 92.209(c)(2) (ii))
While the City of Newport News is considering a HOME TBRA activity for program years 2025 through 2029, those that would be recipients of such funding
would not be in a specific disability category. The proposed HOME TBRA activity would benefit both the disabled and the able bodied.
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