San Francisco’s Openhouse LGBTQ-affirming senior housing complex has affordable apartments at 95 and 75 Laguna Street. Photo: Cynthia Laird

Photo: Cynthia Laird

When New England’s first LGBTQ-affirming affordable senior housing development opened its doors in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood, it had a plethora of governmental and private funding sources to thank. Known as The Pryde, the 74-unit complex built inside a former public middle school cost more than $47 million and just marked being fully occupied in June.   “Financing affordable housing is enormously complicated,” noted LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc. Executive Director Gretchen Van Ness. “We had over 22 funding sources. They call it a funding stack for a reason.”   Across the country in San Francisco, the LGBTQ senior services provi

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