QUESTION
Have you been consulted on the criteria to select 500 households for the pilot?
1:01:59
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Molly Schaeffer explains that the selection involves families in the HANYC program staying in hotel rooms citywide, providing both cost savings and choice in food supplies.
- The selected families are part of the HANYC program, staying in hotel rooms for 28-day periods.
- Current food delivery to these hotel rooms is inefficient, leading to wasted expenses.
- Allowing families to buy their own supplies will enable them to choose what they eat and reduce costs.
- The move to self-supplying supports economic integration into local communities by purchasing food locally.
Erik Bottcher
1:01:59
Have you been consulted on the criteria to select these 500 households, where will they be residing?
Molly Schaeffer
1:02:09
So the families that we are going to be picking are families in our Hanuk program, which are families in hotel room throughout the city in 28 day stays.
1:02:23
This is because right now, they get deliveries from DUCO, it will be cheaper to do this and allow them to have some choice in what kind of foods they want and allow them to buy the supplies that they need.
Erik Bottcher
1:02:37
And the reason that it's cheaper is because the food that you're having delivered to these shelters is not being consumed every day.
1:02:49
There's every day there's some of that isn't being consumed and that's money wasted.
1:02:56
Right?
Molly Schaeffer
1:02:57
So that's part of it.
1:02:58
The other part of it is this isn't these aren't shelters.
1:03:01
These are hotel rooms that people are in throughout the city.
1:03:04
And therefore, part of the cost is delivery.
1:03:07
So we deliver food every 3 days.
1:03:09
This will allow us to not do that anymore.
1:03:12
And so the families will be able to buy food for themselves in the local communities.