Q&A
Housing resources provided at Family Justice Centers
0:49:40
·
128 sec
Jennifer DeCarli outlines the various housing resources available to domestic violence survivors at Family Justice Centers. These include:
- FEPS program for survivors with children on public assistance
- Collaboration with New Destiny and rapid rehousing providers
- HUD-funded DV planning grant to incorporate survivors' needs into the city's coordinated entry system
- Expanded rapid rehousing programs offering emergency financial assistance for up to 2 years
- Collaboration with NYC HPD on voucher programs
- Success with the emergency housing voucher program, which helped lease up over 1,200 survivors
Farah Louis
0:49:40
I'm gonna get back to you on the alarm because I see the difference in the amount of purposeful year.
0:49:45
I'm gonna shift a little bit to family justice centers.
0:49:48
Sure.
0:49:49
Earlier, you all shared with deputy speaker about home base and the pep's access.
0:49:55
At Family Justice Centers.
0:49:56
So I wanted to know what other housing resources are provided to domestic violence survivors at Family Justice Centers.
Jennifer DeCarli
0:50:03
Thank you.
0:50:04
That's a great question.
0:50:05
We spend a tremendous amount of time working with our community of providers to provide as many housing options as possible to survivors.
0:50:14
As you mentioned, we have the FEP SP program, but that's only available for survivors with children who are on public assistance and have children under the age of eighteen.
0:50:23
We also work really closely with New Destiny.
0:50:26
And our community of rapid rehousing providers.
0:50:30
We have a HUD funded DV planning grant that is the goal of that grant is to incorporate the needs of DV survivors into the city's coordinated entry system.
0:50:40
And to do that, we've greatly fanded our rapid rehousing programs.
0:50:43
Mhmm.
0:50:44
And so we're able to support survivors in applying for those programs.
0:50:48
I wish they were as rapid as a name makes it sound, but we like to say they're rapid for New York City.
0:50:54
It's a lot of, like, support applying for different vouchers that might be available to survivors as well as getting emergency financial assistance for 2 years through these programs.
0:51:04
We've grown those programs from very small numbers to almost 10 programs in the city now.
0:51:10
So that's been a huge part of our work through this HUD Coordinated Entry Grant.
0:51:14
And then we also work with our partners at NightGen HPD to support voucher programs.
0:51:20
I know we've spoken here before about the emergency housing voucher program.
0:51:24
We did that and we stood it up really quickly with city partners.
0:51:27
We were thrilled to get vouchers allocated for survivors not in shelter, so to avoid shelter, which is obviously what we want to do as much as possible and keep people safe, and we were able to actually lease up over 1200 survivors with those emergency housing vouchers.
0:51:42
So that program just came to an end, and we hope to build on that success and have more targeted vouchers for survivors.
