QUESTION
How is the tracking of older immigrant adults facing eviction managed, and who is responsible?
1:16:33
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The New York City Department for the Aging tracks the outcomes of eviction cases for older immigrant adults but does not keep detailed records due to confidentiality concerns.
- Legal services providers are tasked with monitoring individual cases.
- The department focuses on documenting case outcomes, such as cases opened and closed.
- Concerns about confidentiality limit the extent of information that can be collected.
- Council Member Gale Brewer emphasizes the need for closer examination of housing court eviction practices and the role of legal service providers.
Gale Brewer
1:16:33
Thank you very much.
1:16:34
Picking up on the housing issue.
1:16:35
I'm always focused on housing court.
1:16:39
So do you keep track either through housing court answers or any other means as to older adults who are immigrants who are facing eviction or other of huge challenges in housing court.
1:16:51
And if you don't, who does?
Penney Vachiraprapun
1:16:55
So we we ask legal services providers obviously to keep track of cases, but we don't we we only keep track of cases in so far as outcomes.
1:17:05
In terms of cases opened and cases closed.
1:17:08
But as I'm sure you can appreciate, there's many confidentiality issues.
1:17:12
So there there aren't that many details that we can ask for.
Gale Brewer
1:17:16
Okay.
1:17:16
But that would be see it seemed to me that will be something without getting into challenges that involve personnel, something to look at.
1:17:24
When you say your legal services providers, I assume those are contracted out legally, etcetera, crowds to the employees.
1:17:30
Correct?
1:17:30
Alright.
1:17:31
I I would suggest that that needs to be in today's world something looked at much more carefully, housing court evictions.
1:17:38
Number 2, do we know I know you talked a lot of statistics, and I listened before I got here.