B3C Housing Safety Fund
Now Open!
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Applicants who applied and were approved in Fall 2025 may be eligible to reapply in July 2026!
Our Housing Safety Fund (HSF) continues to highlight the significant challenges our community members face in meeting their basic needs. Access to affordable housing continues to remain elusive for those living at the intersection of gender, sexuality, disability, and race. Those who have already contacted us via the interest form can expect a response if we can proceed with your application. You will start to hear back from us in 2-3 weeks. Please note that submission of interest does not guarantee funding or assistance. To create consistency and spread ourselves more evenly throughout the year, we will move to regular openings/ closings for the HSF from February to May and September to November.
July 2026 UPDATE: We will open the HSF earlier and close earlier this year. The fund will reopen when our new cycle begins in late July 2026 and will close in late September.
The need is always present, so we are working to streamline referrals from partner agencies, including The Marie Equi Center, CAP Northwest, and Quest Center for Integrative Health, to remain responsive to community members in need of critical support as we process existing applications.
We ask that folx not make requests for rental assistance, the status of their interest form, or our info@, and instead email us directly at housingfund@bbbcollective.org. We will contact you if you have already completed the interest form so we can move forward with your application.
Funding is available if you:
Live in Multnomah County
Can provide a current W9 from the leasing office/landlord
Identify as part of the TQN2SIA+ community.
Our housing safety fund supports Black, Brown, and Indigenous identities, along with those living with disabilities.
Please email: housingfund@bbbcollective.org to receive a link to our interest form.
HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT
This fund was set up to honor the memory of TeTe Gulley, a Black transgender woman the Portland community lost in 2019. The fund is intended to support significantly marginalized individuals currently struggling with housing security and/or safety.
Data shows, and B3C understands, that individuals whose identities lie at the margins have lived experiences involving increased discrimination. Through this fund, B3C will do our best to uplift as many increasingly marginalized members of the Portland community as we are able.
The fund will prioritize individuals who have not yet received housing funding from us. If you have applied before and did not receive funds, please feel encouraged to apply again and make sure to check ‘yes’ for ‘have you applied to the B3C Housing Fund before?’.
Please note: at this time we can only provide funding in the form of checks made out to landlords, property rental/management companies, or other housing security/safety service providers (storage rental fees, etc).
If you are interested in applying, please email housingfund@bbbcollective.org.
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Ubuntu Healing Project
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Black & Beyond the Binary Collective works to provide safety by filling the gap in access to mental health resources for Black - African trans, queer, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, intersex, and asexual Oregonians. Many of us find ourselves faced with housing insecurity and pending evictions, unemployment and underemployment, racially charged violence, and daily microaggressions. These acts of violence exist alongside systemic transphobia, dysphoria, and the gender binary.
Living at the intersections of race, sexuality, and gender often find ourselves confronted with the genuine struggle for life when suicide feels like the only option. Hunhu/Ubuntu in the traditional thought of Southern Africa. Philosophically, the term Hunhu or Ubuntu emphasizes the importance of a group or community. The term finds a clear expression in the Nguni/Ndebele phrase: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu (a person is a person through other persons). "I am because you are".
The Ubuntu Healing Project is a culturally specific healing program for Black-African queer/transgender youth and adults that bridges indigenous and cultural healing practices with Western mental and physical health care. The Ubuntu Healing Project works with providers who identify as Black–African and queer/transgender, who draw on indigenous wisdom and connections to African cultural practices, and who practice liberation-based, gender-affirming healing.
2SLGBTQ+ MEANINGFUL CARE CONFERENCE
The Meaningful Care Conference takes place every other year. The next conference will be in 2028.
Our mission for the conference is to center the lived experiences of those accessing care and to challenge ourselves to uplift marginalized voices.
The day-long conference seeks to:
Promote Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex + culturally responsive health care and social services by uplifting marginalized voices and centering lived-experience
Take an intersectional approach to addressing multi-level health disparities
Share updated promising and evidence-based applications of 2SLGBTQ+ culturally responsive health care
Develop and diversify networks of 2SLGBTQ+ culturally responsive health care and social service providers
Move past equality and equity to center lived-experience, systems-change, and justice
Be change-based, with community leading the way on challenging systems