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Nonprofit builds tiny homes for transgender women of color facing housing insecurity in the South

This article originally appeared at CBS.com on April 15th, 2021
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One in five transgender individuals have experienced homelessness at some point in their lives, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality. Now a nonprofit based in Memphis is on a mission to reverse the troubling statistic. Adriana Diaz shows how members of My Sistah’s House are providing permanent housing to some of those most at risk, one tiny build at a time.

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