Q&A
HPD representative details expanded Homeowner Help Desk program and its goals
1:38:30
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Jenny Weyel from HPD provides comprehensive information about the expanded Homeowner Help Desk program, addressing the concerns raised about outreach and awareness. She outlines the program's goals, target audience, and expected outcomes.
- The program aims to reach 160,000 New Yorkers through a public awareness campaign
- Plans include hosting 270 in-person events and providing assistance to 25,000 homeowners
- The initiative focuses on protecting intergenerational wealth and equity of Black and brown homeowners
- During the pilot program, 80% of those served were homeowners of color, and 50% were seniors
- The Homeowner Handbook will be translated into additional languages and widely distributed
Jenny Weyel
1:38:30
Absolutely.
1:38:31
Thank you so much.
1:38:32
I very much support that.
1:38:35
And I, again, want to reiterate that the expanded homeowner help desk really intends to achieve those goals, right?
1:38:42
It is about making sure that the resources are well known and this is why we're funding more services, but also pairing that with targeted outreach and this public awareness campaign because that is so key to make sure that homeowners are aware of all the resources that exist, including cease and desist zones because of the opt in, mechanism.
1:39:03
Just wanted to highlight very briefly because I don't think I'd shared those numbers yet.
1:39:07
During the 3 year program, we just through the home and a help desk, which again supplements existing programs, We intend to reach, a 160,000 New Yorkers through this public awareness campaign, conduct or host, 270 in person events, provide assistance to 25,000 homeowners, and hope to stabilize 5,000 of them.
1:39:32
We also will offer resiliency consultations, to over a 100 households, because flood risk is a main major issue, that hasn't really come up today, but, that we want to share information about.
1:39:46
And as I mentioned previously, we're going to translate the Homura Handbook, which is currently available in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Chinese into 4 additional languages and distribute over 22 1,000 copies of that handbook.
1:40:00
I also wanted to mention that during the pilot, because the issue of racial equity, predatory equity has come up, the goal one of the goals of the homeowner help desk is to address, or to protect intergenerational wealth and equity of black and brown homeowners and to prevent the displacement of those homeowners.
1:40:22
So those are very much the goals of this program.
1:40:26
During the pilot of this program that we implemented a couple of years ago, 80% of the people we served were homeowners of color and 50% were seniors.
1:40:36
And we hope to, serve the same populations through the expanded program.
1:40:40
Thank you.
Crystal Hudson
1:40:42
Thank you.
1:40:42
Thank you, Council Member.
