REMARKS
Effects of housing instability on local providers and communities
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Council Member Avilés addresses concerns about how housing instability resulting from the shelter limit policies affects local providers and communities. She emphasizes the challenges faced by community-based organizations in maintaining relationships with shelter residents.
- Establishing relationships with shelter residents is crucial for community-based organizations and local providers
- Housing instability complicates the work of providers who have invested time in initial contact with clients
- The council member warns that not providing stable pathways for independence may lead to greater instability for the city in the future
- Avilés expresses a desire to work with the administration to better support immigrant newcomers
Alexa Avilés
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There are also concerns about how this housing instability affects local providers and communities.
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Establishing relationships with shelter residents is a significant component of our work that community based organizations and local providers do for their immigrant clients, especially for new arrivals who are often fearful of interactions with city agencies.
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Establishing that relationship is immensely complicated.
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However, if an individual or family stops showing up because they've been moved to a different location, this can strain providers who put a lot of work already into initial contact with a client.
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While the number of new arrivals in shelters has decreased, the unintended consequences of not providing stable pathways for independence may put the city at greater risk of instability further down the line.
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We look forward to addressing these concerns today and hearing from the administration on how we can work together to ensure that our immigrant newcomers are supported enough to begin establishing their lives in New York City.
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We also look forward to hearing testimony from the advocates and providers who support these newcomers endlessly and from newcomers themselves who, like many before them, 1,000,000 before them who came from other countries, very much in the same way.
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No allowing for revisionist history.
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Very much in the same way.
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2, our beloved city to start anew.
