True Colors will be shining in the Bronx.
A supportive housing complex for LGBT youth is coming to Jerome Ave. — and, yes, the site is named after the Cyndi Lauper song because the pop icon had a hand in the project.
True Colors Bronx will house 30 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young adults with a history of homelessness in studio apartments, according to the site’s operator West End Residences.
The Queens-reared songstress has been involved with the group for several years and helped come up with the concept for the project, said Colleen Jackson, the nonprofit’s executive director.
“I came back to her with a plan for permanent supportive housing and asked if we could call it the True Colors Residence,” Jackson said. “She agreed and continued her involvement by helping to promote and support the project in any way she could.”
The Bronx residence is modeled after a similar facility that opened with help from the star in Harlem in 2011.
A city-authored study determined in 2010 that as much as 36% of the city’s homeless youth identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning.
Lauper, who won a Tony for best original score for the Broadway hit “Kinky Boots” in 2013, praised the work of the Manhattan location.
“I am honored to work with them and to witness how the True Colors Residence impacts the lives of these young people and provides them a pathway to live the happy, healthy and productive lives they deserve,” Lauper said in a statement to the Daily News.
The 61-year-old diva said she has high hopes for the new Bronx location.
“We have had such great success in Manhattan and are so proud to announce that West End Residences is constructing a second True Colors project in the Bronx,” Lauper wrote.
Residents of the facility will be between 18 and 24 and will have access to voluntary on-site couseling and other social services.
The building will also have a community room, computer lab, laundry facilities, outdoor space, security and a live-in super.
Plans for the facility received a letter of support from neighborhood leaders in February 2013.
“There is definitely a necessity to address the needs of that population,” said Adeline Walker-Santiago, chairwoman of Community Board 7 which covers the neighborhood.
“I do hope that they’re going to be good neighbors, and I’m sure they will be.”
