QUESTION
What are the benefits of having a centralized homeless service site according to the NYC Department of Homeless Services?
1:02:07
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79 sec
The administrator of the NYC Department of Homeless Services explains that their centralized site is easily accessible by public transportation and provides comprehensive, wraparound services for families experiencing homelessness.
- The site is located in an area that can be reached via public transportation
- When families arrive, they receive coordinated medical, social, and other support services
- The facility was intentionally designed to provide these services in a dignified setting
- The administrator prefers a purpose-built site over retrofitting existing buildings
Sandra Ung
1:02:07
You know, So I do understand what you're saying, but for families that are not from that area like you were saying, I understand people were from that area.
1:02:17
Would be easier.
1:02:18
But for the people and for the boroughs who also experience homelessness, do you think the city can benefit from having a site somewhere else?
Joslyn Carter
1:02:27
Well, one of the things that's important is that, you know, we are on a people can get to us.
1:02:32
Right?
1:02:32
We're we're certainly on a transportation and get to us.
1:02:35
And when you come in to our front doors.
1:02:37
They're the service that you've seen.
1:02:38
Like, you've seen the service that we do.
1:02:41
You see that we are really looking at the entire family, the needs that, you know, we're meeting those needs.
1:02:46
So getting to us, you know, we're we're we're in the Bronx, but we, you know, it's not you know, we we we you can get to where we are.
1:02:54
And the service that you're gonna get every family, as you saw, council member getting the same information is wraparound.
1:03:00
You come through outdoors, There's a medical provider there.
1:03:03
So it would not behoove us to try to be able to do the same service in a space that's retrofitted.
1:03:09
I wanna come to a building that's, like, made for the service.
1:03:12
We built it for intentionally to say when you come to we respect you.
1:03:16
Right?
1:03:17
And I don't wanna go back to retrofitting buildings for this service.
1:03:21
We wanna be able to have wrap around services for families that says, you know, this is a space for you when you come to us.
