QUESTION
Why are so few families with children able to utilize rental vouchers to leave homeless shelters and secure permanent housing in the private market?
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3 min
The administrator explains that families exit homeless shelters through various means, not just rental vouchers.
- As of April, 2,129 families exited with non-HPD City vouchers (FEPS)
- 2,039 families exited with HPD vouchers
- 473 families exited through NYCHA (public housing)
- 242 families exited to supportive housing
- 760 families exited through other means like finding housing on their own
- Over 5,700 families exited homeless shelters so far this fiscal year, compared to around 5,000 the previous year
- The administrator notes the 1.4% rental vacancy rate in NYC makes it challenging for voucher holders to find units
Diana I. Ayala
1:54:28
The the last question.
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So that same city limits report noted that only 38% of exiting families with children secured permanent housing with a rental voucher?
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Do you have any insight into why so few families with children are succeeding in utilizing rental vouchers to leave shelter and enter the private market and what can be done to increase this number?
Joslyn Carter
1:54:52
Well, What I would say to that is families examine multiple means from shelter.
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Right?
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So not necessarily just a voucher.
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We have families who exit using NICE, HPD, supportive housing.
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Right?
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It's a variety of of exiting.
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One size does not fit all in terms of how family leaves us.
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So I think that and I haven't read the city limits.
1:55:19
I'm not so sure.
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That's when looking at my folks in.
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I'm not so sure about this.
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But I do know that it's not just vouchering that the the the that families leave us.
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So there's a variety of means that family living.
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So if the city limits and I have to read it, you know, to be truthful, I do know that families live with multiple waste the exit shelter.
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So we have families that are leaving.
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Right?
1:55:42
We have, you know, at this point, over 50 almost 57100 families.
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Who have left, which is much more than we have done in the last fiscal year.
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So they're leaving.
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Right?
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So if it's 38% or whatever the numbers are, I know I know that they're using different means exit.
1:55:57
So I don't want us to think that every family is using just this one particular means to leave of system.
1:56:02
And you know, it's it's it's a variety of of ways that they are leaving shelter to permanency to go home.
Diana I. Ayala
1:56:10
So 30 because I then my my math is correct.
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The 30 percent is leaving a family is leaving with a rental voucher.
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50%, we don't know where they went.
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So then at least 12% that would have potentially left to the supportive housing unit or something.
Joslyn Carter
1:56:27
I I have the numbers.
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I just got to find.
1:56:29
Okay.
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You give me a minute.
Diana I. Ayala
1:56:30
Sure.
Joslyn Carter
1:56:53
Okay.
1:56:54
So so far through April, I have 2129 non HPD City Feps.
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2039 HPD, 473 nitra, 242 supportive housing, and 760, all that others could be solar on their own.
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So so far through March, 5651 subsidized exits for children.
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So over almost 5700 so far exits families or children compared to 4986 for the same period to FY 23.
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So families are exiting.
1:57:42
Okay.
1:57:42
That's good.
1:57:44
And and, you know, we I also have to mention that we're competing with a 1.4% vacancy rate in New York city.
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So Right.
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We're getting families So
Diana I. Ayala
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make that push to the
Joslyn Carter
1:57:55
immigration system
Angela Serda
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and all
Diana I. Ayala
1:57:57
of those housing units that we've already voted for.
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Will be at.
Joslyn Carter
1:58:00
So, yeah, we're getting removing we put We're pushing it from this exit.
1:58:04
That is our, you know, one thing that we absolutely have to make sure that as families enter outdoors, exit strategies are being developed with the families.
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So
