QUESTION
What happens when an individual is found ineligible for shelter and the home they would return to is overcrowded or unsafe?
1:40:37
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The DHS administrator explains that if a person's previous home is overcrowded or has domestic violence, it is considered not viable housing and they cannot be sent back there.
- Overcrowding is determined based on regulations set by the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA).
- If a home is overcrowded according to OTDA standards, it is deemed not viable housing.
- Homes with domestic violence or intimate partner violence present are also considered not viable housing options.
- The DHS follows regulations to determine if a housing situation is viable or not viable.
Diana I. Ayala
1:40:37
And does DHS work with let's say, you find somebody ineligible, you send them back to maybe their mother's house, They obviously maybe they're overcrowded.
1:40:47
Maybe there are other issues in the household.
1:40:49
Does DHS then refer that individual to another program that can help identify housing.
Joslyn Carter
1:40:56
If it's overcrowded and it doesn't meet this the If it if it's overcrowded, then we determine it's overcrowded, then we're not going to it's not going to be viable.
1:41:03
Okay.
1:41:03
Right?
1:41:04
So field specialists follow the regulations of what OTTDA says is is is a overcrowded standard.
1:41:11
Right?
1:41:12
So if it's overcrowded and it stands about a overcrowded is, then it's not viable.
1:41:17
So there are standards that we do follow based on what the regs say, and those are the term those make the determinations for viable and not viable.
1:41:25
If there's domestic violence in the home, if there's family violence in the home, intimate partner violence, there's no home, they're not those housing options are not viable.
1:41:35
They're not suitable.
