QUESTION
What support is provided to homeless applicants in obtaining evidence of their housing history?
1:41:36
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The NYC Department of Homeless Services staff assists applicants in obtaining proof of their prior housing situations and homelessness history.
- Staff helps applicants gather evidence like proof from shelters, outreach teams verifying street homelessness, and records from hospitals if applicants were admitted
- For families, DHS does not typically see cases of children living on the streets, but staff is supposed to help families obtain their 2-year housing history
- DHS does not leave the burden entirely on applicants to provide proof, but is charged with supporting them in documenting their history
Diana I. Ayala
1:41:36
So regarding the you mentioned the 2 year look back at previous housing, What support is provided to applicants in obtaining, you know, the evidence that they need specifically is for people who may have difficulty getting acceptable proof or such as those who were previously on sheltered?
Joslyn Carter
1:41:56
The our staff do help with that.
1:41:59
As well as if you're on sheltered, we do get we we will talk to if they're on Sheldon on the street, we'll talk to store storekeepers, our outreach teams, can verify that a person was on shelter on the street.
1:42:14
That's typically on the fam on the adult family side.
1:42:17
Families are not we we don't see families of children on shelters.
1:42:20
I'm on the streets.
1:42:21
That's not something we we we we don't see that.
1:42:23
I could say that in my time, a path or even here that that's something that we're seeing.
1:42:28
On shelter families on the street.
1:42:30
But all field specialists and my staff at path do help with that.
1:42:34
That's one of the things that we're charged with to really help support If a family has been in the hospital and they're missing time, we we do find we're supposed to help to do that.
1:42:43
You just can't say it's on you and you don't do it.
1:42:45
We're supposed to help.
1:42:46
The family for that information to help to get the 2 year old's history.
Diana I. Ayala
1:42:50
So recently, I learned that there was a pilot program at some I don't know.
