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QUESTION

Where are Salif and Babakar staying right now? What challenges do they face with shelter placements?

0:30:59

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109 sec

Salif and Babakar describe, through a language interpreter, their ongoing struggle with securing stable shelter, highlighting the precariousness of their housing situation.

  • They initially stay in a shelter for 30 days before receiving a recommendation for another shelter.
  • Requires 4 to 5 days to locate the new shelter, only to find there's no space available upon arrival.
  • Forced to search for another shelter, Salif and Babakar are in a difficult and unstable housing situation.
  • This situation underscores the challenges of navigating the shelter system and finding stable housing.
Diana I. Ayala
0:30:59
Where are you staying right now?
UNKNOWN
0:31:05
I'm still in in the shelter.
UNKNOWN
0:31:09
Okay.
UNKNOWN
0:31:35
Okay.
Shahana Hanif
0:31:49
Don't have to give me the address.
0:31:51
Yeah.
0:31:51
Yeah.
0:31:51
You don't have to give me the address.
Diana I. Ayala
0:31:52
We don't want the address
UNKNOWN
0:31:54
or So after so that's about the gentleman who are sitting right next to me.
0:32:01
He stayed in the shelter for about 30 days.
Shahana Hanif
0:32:03
So you started a new cycle of 30 days.
UNKNOWN
0:32:06
Well, he was in a shelter for 30 days, and then they gave him the an address recommendation for another shelter.
0:32:11
It took him 5 days, 4 to 5 days to find that other shelter.
Shahana Hanif
0:32:14
Find that other shelter.
UNKNOWN
0:32:15
Yeah.
0:32:15
And once he got to that other shot, they told him
UNKNOWN
0:32:22
that And
UNKNOWN
0:32:25
about that other shelter that he was supposed to be welcomed, and he said they said to him over there that didn't have any space him.
0:32:32
So, basically, he's back to finding another shelter again as of now.
Shahana Hanif
0:32:35
So the gentleman in the middle is back to finding.
0:32:38
He's he's right now in a precarious situation.
0:32:41
Deletion.
0:32:42
Looking for
UNKNOWN
0:32:43
as well.
0:32:43
Yes.
0:32:44
He's looking for at the moment.
Shahana Hanif
0:32:45
Yeah.
0:32:45
But as we speak about this understood.
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