Q&A
Collaboration between city agencies on deed theft prevention
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Carlos Ortiz from DCWP discusses how city agencies are working together to address deed theft and provide comprehensive support to homeowners.
- DCWP's financial empowerment centers focus on improving overall financial health
- Agencies are working on identifying the right services for clients and making appropriate referrals
- Goal is to ensure New Yorkers always have access to the support they need
Carlos Ortiz
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Maybe I'll take I'll take it first.
0:46:38
So I think thinking about the resources that we offer at DCBP, to be to be explicit in in our financial empowerment centers, they're really about creating, or let's say, bettering folks' financial health.
0:46:53
And that comes from a very foundational level of ensuring folks, know how to budget, know how to increase their savings, improve credit.
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Credit to me is I don't say it's a mystery, but I know when I was younger, it was certainly a mystery.
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I think these foundational aspects of financial health are kind of what we work on.
0:47:09
And then what we're trying to what we're building now with our colleagues, at HPD and DOF in aging is ensuring that, that when a client comes to our our services that we're identifying as our service the right the right situation for them, should we be referring them to homeowner, homeowner support?
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Should we be referring them to, a, support for older adults?
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And I think that identifying how we complement each other, that we're reducing any gaps, and that ultimately a New Yorker never finds themselves without an answer, I think, is how we're we're working to each other now.
