QUESTION
How many individuals are currently living in New York City without proper housing?
2:26:33
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38 sec
Council Member Gale Brewer inquires about the number of individuals living in New York City without proper housing, including those avoiding shelters.
- Interim Director Molly Schaeffer states the Mayor's Office of Asylum Seeker Operations does not track individuals after they leave the office's care.
- Schaeffer mentions that when unsafe living conditions are discovered, invitations back to shelters are extended as an alternative.
- The discussion highlights the issue of people living in inadequate conditions due to shelter avoidance or inaccessibility.
Gale Brewer
2:26:33
My other question is, do we know how many people are living in New York?
2:26:37
I mean, you heard about the stores and queens, blah blah blah.
2:26:40
We got the mosque.
2:26:41
We have some sense of how many other folks are living in conditions because they have no place else at this moment.
2:26:46
They don't wanna be in the shelter.
2:26:48
They can't get into the shelter.
2:26:49
Do you have any sense of what those numbers are?
Molly Schaeffer
2:26:53
So we don't track where people go after they leave our care.
2:27:00
But whenever we find unsafe environments, we invite people back to shelter if that's than where they need to be while we vacate our location.
Gale Brewer
2:27:11
Okay.