QUESTION
Why were homeless individuals declared ineligible on certain days but eligible on others?
1:17:35
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The Department of Social Services acknowledges discrepancies in eligibility determinations under the previous administration and commits to transparency and correction.
- Previous administration's practices in determining eligibility for shelter services resulted in inconsistencies.
- Commissioner Molly Wasow Park acknowledges the issue and asserts it should not have happened.
- Commitment to transparency and ensuring such discrepancies do not occur again.
- Despite the inconsistencies, the impact was considered marginal as all who needed shelter were eventually found eligible.
Diana I. Ayala
1:17:35
So if if in fact, if a person was not found eligible on Monday and but they were found eligible on Wednesday and they were place, then why go through the trouble of playing with the numbers?
Molly Wasow Park
1:17:51
Unfortunately, council member, I can't speculate why the previous administration chose to do what it did.
1:17:57
I can acknowledge that it happened.
1:17:59
I acknowledge that it should not have happened.
1:18:01
I value transparency, and I am committed to making sure that nothing like this happens again.
1:18:08
But at the end of the day, the impact was relatively marginal because people were in shelter, and they were all anybody who needed to be found eligible was found eligible?