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QUESTION

What is the true eligibility rate for shelter access, and how is it determined?

1:15:27

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Commissioner Park indicates that the investigation revealed the day of eligibility determination was altered to maintain a consistent eligibility rate, but all eligible individuals were sheltered.

  • Families applying for shelter are placed in a conditional unit during the eligibility investigation.
  • Eligibility date determinations were altered by a few days to keep the eligibility rate relatively flat.
  • There was no denial of shelter access; the change affected only the day the eligibility determination was made.
  • The alteration did not impact the overall number of people found eligible for shelter.
Diana I. Ayala
1:15:27
Regarding the the investigation, is there any data on the true eligibility rate that was saved anywhere?
1:15:35
And if so, has an analysis been done to understand how much the rate was altered.
Molly Wasow Park
1:15:43
Thank you, Council member.
1:15:45
Let me take a answer that question by starting with taking a step and talking a little bit about what happened.
1:15:53
Families with children, as after they apply, as path are placed in a conditional placement.
1:15:59
Right?
1:15:59
So from the moment that you apply it path while the eligibility investigation is ongoing, families are in shelters.
1:16:06
Those conditional placements aren't specialized sites or anything like that.
1:16:09
It is a shelter unit, like any other shelter unit.
1:16:14
While what happened was that in order to keep a relatively flat eligibility rate, the date of determination was altered.
1:16:26
It appears by a few days.
1:16:29
We can't necessarily go and we create it on it for any given day.
1:16:34
But, you know, if if I might have been found eligible on a Monday, I was instead found eligible on a Wednesday.
1:16:40
I wanna make it very clear.
1:16:43
Absolutely, everybody who was fat who should have been found eligible was found eligible.
1:16:48
And while those eligibility determinations were underway, people were in shelter.
1:16:54
So there was no question of people being inappropriately denied access to shelter.
1:17:00
It was a question on what day that eligibility determination was made in order to keep a relatively flat eligibility rate.
1:17:09
So, overall, exactly the same number of people were found eligible for shelter, what changed was the day to day rate?
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