Care living

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There are still places available for lesbian and bisexual women* as well as trans* and inter* people

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We want to make the Diversity Living Space at Südkreuz a lively place for the LGBTI* community and use it as a base for realising further projects to improve services for our target groups.

Diversity in one house

We opened the Lebensort Vielfalt (Gotenstraße on the corner of Ella-Barowsky-Straße) at Südkreuz on 1 October 2023. This is the headquarters of Schwulenberatung Berlin with offices and counselling rooms. There are 69 flats spread over 5 floors. Younger and older LGBTI* people live in the building, including single people, couples and families. The majority of the flats are for people with a WBS. There are two therapeutic flat-sharing communities, including one specifically for lesbian women with 5 places and a care flat-sharing community that provides a home for 8 people.

Diversity as a place to live - that is diversity lived every day under one roof.

The Diversity Centre is unique in Europe in terms of its size and diversity. Its realisation took more than six years, including 17 months of pure construction time. A total of around six million euros was invested. More than half of this was financed by the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin. The Stiftung Deutsches Hilfswerk ("Deutsche Fernsehlotterie") also contributed a large proportion. Further funding came from private and public loans, donations and sponsorship.

In concrete terms, the Südkreuz project will be realised:

- 69 flats, (22 low-price segment = € 6.50 per m²)

of which:

- 30 for gay seniors

- 17 for lesbian senior citizens

- 7 for older trans*Inter people

- 11 for younger LGBTI people

- 1 LGBTI residential care community (8 places)

- 2 TWG's gay/LSBTI with/without refugee background

and

- Day care centre with 45 places

- Employment day centre with 15 places

- Care support centre, especially for LGBTI* people

- Gastronomy

- Neighbourhood centre

- Office, counselling, group and common rooms