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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/homeless_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Homeless Shelter for LGBT Youth Opens in Washington' data-article-id='364'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='12667'>A shelter for homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people is opening in Washington, D.C. </span> <span data-start-time='12667' data-end-time='15646'>It is called Casa Ruby.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='15646' data-end-time='19438'>Giselle Hartzog is transgender. </span> <span data-start-time='19438' data-end-time='22521'>She was forced to leave a women’s shelter.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='22521' data-end-time='29854'>“Once they found out I was trans, they were very discriminating against me and wouldn’t let me come back.”</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='29854' data-end-time='42042'>Giselle Hartzog left her home in Mississippi four years ago because her mother did not support Giselle’s self-identification as a woman.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='42042' data-end-time='45208'>Ms. Hartzog moved to Washington. </span> <span data-start-time='45208' data-end-time='47229'>She had no home.</span> <span data-start-time='47229' data-end-time='51083'>She often slept in the central train station. </span> <span data-start-time='51083' data-end-time='55125'>She would have sex with strangers for money. </span> <span data-start-time='55125' data-end-time='59604'>Ms. Hartzog was arrested earlier this year. </span> <span data-start-time='59604' data-end-time='64125'>Officials told her she should go to Casa Ruby. </span> <span data-start-time='64125' data-end-time='68958'>She will be one of the first people to live there.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='68958' data-end-time='77583'>Ms. Hartzog says Casa Ruby will give her what she needs: safety, food and shelter. </span> <span data-start-time='77583' data-end-time='82083'>She says she cannot ask for too much more.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='82083' data-end-time='87646'>The shelter is named for Ruby Corado, who created it.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='87646' data-end-time='94104'>“It’s a house where people can be themselves. </span> <span data-start-time='94104' data-end-time='98250'>And where they can be safe. </span> <span data-start-time='98250' data-end-time='106396'>And more importantly, for me, a place where they can be loved and where we can love one another.”</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='106396' data-end-time='113792'>Homeless LGBT youth can live at Casa Ruby for as long as 18 months.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='113792' data-end-time='119646'>Larry Villegas helps the young people find work and a place to live. </span> <span data-start-time='119646' data-end-time='126354'>He says while they are at Casa Ruby, they must work to improve their lives. </span> <span data-start-time='126354' data-end-time='129396'>He says they will have duties.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='129396' data-end-time='138146'>“There should be 35 hours per week of employment or community work or education or job training</span> <span data-start-time='138146' data-end-time='148000'>And we want to make it in a way that it is always from ‘What did you do today to get better?’ and celebrate that accomplishment.”</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='148000' data-end-time='154542'>Mr. Villegas says the staff will help the house members reach those goals.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='154542' data-end-time='164250'>Ruby Corado says Casa Ruby will have 18 beds and clothing for those who arrive with nothing. </span> <span data-start-time='164250' data-end-time='175375'>She says her goal from the beginning was to offer LGBT homeless youth the same help that is given to many people in Washington.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='175375' data-end-time='182500'>Shelter residents will be given health care and treatment for drug or alcohol abuse. </span> <span data-start-time='182500' data-end-time='189896'>Casa Ruby will become not just a new home, but the beginning of a new life.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='189896' data-end-time='197229'>Maria Foscarinis works at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. </span> <span data-start-time='197229' data-end-time='202396'>She says LGBT youth need that kind of support. </span> <span data-start-time='202396' data-end-time='210521'>She says many public services are not available to young people because of their age. </span> <span data-start-time='210521' data-end-time='218375'>She says there are a lot of barriers to remove to solve the problems these youths face.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='218375' data-end-time='230750'>Activists for the homeless estimate that 20 to 40 percent of homeless youth are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. </span> <span data-start-time='230750' data-end-time='235833'>That is about 400,000 American young people. </span> <span data-start-time='235833' data-end-time='239917'>Some of them are as young as 13. </span> <span data-start-time='239917' data-end-time='247792'>LGBT youth who are rejected by family members are at higher risk of suicide. </span> <span data-start-time='247792' data-end-time='260833'>Studies show those from highly rejecting families are more than eight times more likely to try kill themselves than those with accepting families.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='260833' data-end-time='271771'>Some places that help homeless youth would not offer shelter to young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. </span> <span data-start-time='271771' data-end-time='280521'>This practice was so widespread that the federal agency that funds shelters created new rules. </span> <span data-start-time='280521' data-end-time='290604'>These require homeless youth shelters to provide the same treatment to LGBT youth as other young people.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='290604' data-end-time='292521'>I’m Caty Weaver.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/the_successful_completion_of_something.m4a'><span>the successful completion of something</span></div></div></div><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=2155 data-hint-location='175375' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/what_does_resident_mean.m4a'>What does resident mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='someone who lives in a particular place'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/an_abbreviation.m4a'><span>an abbreviation</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/to_relocate.m4a'><span>to relocate</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/someone_who_lives_in_a_particular_place.m4a'><span>someone who lives in a particular place</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/to_complete_something.m4a'><span>to complete something</span></div></div></div><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=2156 data-hint-location='197229' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/what_does_lgbt_mean.m4a'>What does LGBT mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='an initialism for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/an_initialism_for_lesbian_gay_bisexual_and_transgender.m4a'><span>an initialism for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/to_relocate.m4a'><span>to relocate</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/a_place_to_live.m4a'><span>a place to live</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/to_complete_something.m4a'><span>to complete something</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=2157 data-hint-location='68958' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/which_is_not_something_a_lgbt_youth_will_get_at_the_shelter.m4a'>Which is NOT something a LGBT youth will get at the shelter?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='smartphone'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/smartphone.m4a'><span>smartphone</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/shelter.m4a'><span>shelter</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/food.m4a'><span>food</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/safety.m4a'><span>safety</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=2158 data-hint-location='82083' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/who_created_the_shelter.m4a'>Who created the shelter?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='Ruby Corado'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/michelle_obama.m4a'><span>Michelle Obama</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/ruby_corado.m4a'><span>Ruby Corado</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/barack_obama.m4a'><span>Barack Obama</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/giselle.m4a'><span>Giselle</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=2159 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/where_is_the_new_homeless_shelter_located.m4a'>Where is the new homeless shelter located?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='Washington D.C.'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/new_york_city.m4a'><span>New York City</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/san_francisco.m4a'><span>San Francisco</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/washington_dc.m4a'><span>Washington D.C.</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/los_angeles.m4a'><span>Los Angeles</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=2160 data-hint-location='175375' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/_blank__residents_will_be_given_health_care_and_treatment_for_drug_or_alcohol_abuse.m4a'><span class='blank'>shelter</span> residents will be given health care and treatment for drug or alcohol abuse.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='shelter'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/young.m4a'><span>young</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/local.m4a'><span>local</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/washington.m4a'><span>Washington</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/shelter.m4a'><span>shelter</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=2161 data-hint-location='106396' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/casa_ruby_was_created_specifically_for__blank_.m4a'>Casa Ruby was created specifically for <span class='blank'>LGBT youth</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='LGBT youth'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/children.m4a'><span>children</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/women.m4a'><span>women</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/lgbt_youth.m4a'><span>LGBT youth</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/men.m4a'><span>men</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=2162 data-hint-location='22521' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/giselle_was_forced_to_leave_the_womens_shelter_because_she_is__blank_.m4a'>Giselle was forced to leave the women's shelter because she is <span class='blank'>trans</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='trans'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/133/trans.m4a'><span>trans</span></div><div class='choice' 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