QUESTION
What happens if migrant families receiving relocation assistance return to New York City shelters?
1:42:50
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If migrant families leave NYC shelters through a relocation assistance pilot program but later return, they are still eligible for shelter beds.
- The pilot program provides a $4,000 payment and gift cards to help migrant families relocate to places like Texas if they have family there.
- If a family leaves the NYC shelter system through this pilot but then returns, the city cannot turn them away.
- The city must honor the family's need for shelter and provide them a bed or unit if needed.
Diana I. Ayala
1:42:50
So recently, I learned that there was a pilot program at some I don't know.
1:42:55
There's maybe 9 shelters that would pay $4000 to migrant families that could they maybe have family in Texas if they could relocate there.
1:43:10
And then there was some other money.
1:43:11
So I think it was a, like, a gift card or something like that that they would be provided.
1:43:17
When assuming that a family receives, you know, that payout and they leave the system and they go to Texas, and it doesn't work out.
1:43:26
And then they end up back in New York City.
1:43:28
Are they no longer eligible for
Joslyn Carter
1:43:30
We can't turn you away.
1:43:31
It's only a silent move out assistance pilot.
1:43:34
Yes.
1:43:34
Yes.
1:43:36
Yeah.
1:43:36
If if we if we help you through that pilot and you move out, we hope you do not return.
1:43:43
But if you return, I'm not gonna say to you, Joslyn Carter, you you know, Yeah.
1:43:46
You gave you and you can't come in.
1:43:47
Right?
1:43:48
We have to honor that person's if they need a a unit, need a bed.
1:43:51
Right?
Diana I. Ayala
1:43:52
Okay.
