QUESTION
How many families were asked to transfer shelters by the NYC Department of Homeless Services?
1:22:59
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The administrator of the NYC Department of Homeless Services does not provide a specific number on how many families were asked to transfer shelters.
- The administrator acknowledges that they should have provided 48 hours notice before transferring families.
- They explain that families have been transferred from Tier 2 shelters to dedicated shelters for asylum seekers.
- The department has had to create a separate 'crisis management' system to handle the influx of asylum seekers.
- The administrator states they will follow up on what happened with this particular transfer situation.
Diana I. Ayala
1:22:59
I'm assuming that if when did this, it was under the advisement of VHS?
1:23:05
I mean, would they
Joslyn Carter
1:23:06
I don't think I missed the question, counsel.
Diana I. Ayala
1:23:08
When when wouldn't just decide arbitrarily that they're gonna set folks from you know, from
Shahana Hanif
1:23:13
this space?
1:23:14
So they must have been This is
Joslyn Carter
1:23:15
the DHS.
1:23:16
Right?
1:23:16
We we DHS, you know, when is all contract we provide?
1:23:21
Yes.
1:23:21
So we do we are transferring we make the transfers.
1:23:27
Right?
1:23:27
So we we say yes transfer.
1:23:30
And we should have done the 48 hour notice.
1:23:32
But we have been moving families from the tier twos to really have them all in a dedicate aside as dedicated, to get their services that they need for their asylum seekers.
1:23:42
We've been doing that throughout our system to really have because we now have 2 separate systems.
1:23:46
Right?
1:23:47
We have the DHS regular New Yorker system, and now we have the CMT, the crisis management system, which is what we call it.
1:23:53
Right?
1:23:53
They're all under one leadership but I have a dedicated line this way with staff.
1:23:58
That's now because it got so big.
1:24:00
I didn't think we would have 162.
1:24:01
Now 160.
1:24:03
Shelves.
1:24:03
I never we never thought that.
1:24:05
I know because it got so huge, we had to really make a whole arm that manages that.
1:24:11
And so that's what we were moving, you know, families to do that.
1:24:14
We've been doing that throughout.
1:24:16
This 1, you know, 24 hour transfer notices for emergencies.
1:24:20
And it wasn't an emergency.
1:24:23
So we will follow you know, we have since corrected that.
1:24:28
And so I will follow-up on what happened with this particularly.
Diana I. Ayala
1:24:31
Do you know, in general, how many families were asked to transfer?
