QUESTION
How many staff members administer the rental assistance voucher program at HRA, and what are the vacancy rates?
0:56:12
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Commissioner Molly Wasow Park explains the complexity of staffing for the rental assistance voucher program, incorporating multiple departments and promising a detailed staff breakdown.
- The process involves DHS and HRA teams, along with various departments like IT and finance.
- Approximately 100 people at DHS work with shelter providers as part of the rental assistance process.
- There is a significant infrastructure supporting the rental assistance program.
- A detailed breakdown of staffing, including vacancies, will be provided later.
Diana I. Ayala
0:56:12
For how many clients, and how many people currently on staff at HRA administer the rental assistance voucher program, and how many of these positions of vacant.
Molly Wasow Park
0:56:25
So there's there's a broad universe of people who touch the city perhaps process.
0:56:31
Starts at DHS actually for people who are in shelter that they DHS has a team of approximately a 100, and we will circle back with exact headcount numbers on each of these areas.
0:56:43
But DHS has a team of people that work with shelter providers, review packages, HRA has a team of people, then there's everybody who cuts checks.
0:56:52
But supported by our IT department, supported by finance.
0:56:58
It's a there's a significant infrastructure that works on rental assistance.
0:57:04
We will try and do a breakdown of all of those different areas and and get back to you with that.
