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Council Member Sandra Ung discusses Intro 460 on homeless shelter accessibility
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Council Member Sandra Ung speaks about Intro 460, which aims to make the city's shelter system more accessible and compassionate for homeless families and children. The legislation requires the Department of Homeless Services to study the feasibility of partnering with local community organizations to process shelter intake applications.
- Currently, families must travel to the PATH intake center in the Bronx, which is the only intake center for families in the Five Boroughs.
- Community-based organizations are often the first point of contact for families in crisis and are trusted to provide culturally competent and in-language services.
- The legislation takes a common-sense approach to serve homeless families where they are, potentially streamlining the intake process and reducing stress on vulnerable residents.
Sandra Ung
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Thank you, Madam.
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Majority there for the opportunity to speak briefly about intro 460.
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Today, we are taking an important step toward making our city's shelter more accessible and compassionate for homeless families and children.
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Currently, families are forced to navigate a system that asks them to travel miles often with young children to reach the path intake center in the Bronx to only intake center for families in the Five boroughs.
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However, we know that the first stop for many families in crisis is not a path center, but they're local community organizations.
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The same organizations that have been working tirelessly on the front lines, providing culturally competent and in language services that integrate community rely on.
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These committee base organizations are trusted.
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They're present where the families live, and they're already doing so much of this important work.
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They shouldn't be power to do even more.
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This is why this legislation is so important.
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By requiring the Department of Homeland Services to study the feasibility of partnering with these local not for profits to process shelter intakes applications.
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You are taking a common sense approach of serving the homeless families where they are rather than making them come to us.
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Working with our partners in the community, we can find ways to streamline the intake process and reduce unnecessary stress placed on our city's most vulnerable residents.
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I wanna thank Speaker Alice for leadership and all my colleagues who voted for this leisure station to source support for our families in need.
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Thank you so much.