Palm Springs To Provide Transgender Residents With Monthly Income Through New Initiative

Palm Springs will provide transgender and non-binary residents with a guaranteed income program in an effort to prevent homelessness and poverty within the community.

Last month, the city council for Palm Springs passed a bill that gave $200,000 to DAP Health and Queer Works – two organizations that work to fight disparities that affect the LGBTQIA+ community – to create a program dedicated to serving LGBTQIA+ residents in the city. The state-funded initiative was led by the city’s first transgender mayor Lisa Middleton.

The two organizations will provide 20 residents who identify as trans or non-binary with between $600 and $900 a month.

“Such a program to help people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer community is unbelievably part of the values of Palm Springs, hands down,” Councilman Dennis Woods said, according to the news outlet Patch.