Molly Wasow Park
3:09:17
So pre pandemic and pre asylum crisis, so if we're trying to get to a better denominator here, eviction was for families with children, which is where we have the best data, it was about ten percent of the families with children entering the shelter system Compared to BV being Because eviction.
3:09:37
I think the two primary drivers for families with children, it's domestic violence and then it is young families, primarily young women, who have never had a lease.
3:09:50
They've always lived with other people, and a baby or a second baby is too much and pushes them for that household and pushes them into the shelter system.
3:10:03
What we see is that overwhelmingly families with children entering the shelter system have not had a lease within the last two years.
3:10:13
That two years is the look back period that we have looking at people's housing history, but anecdotally it goes even further back and many people have never had a lease, which is not to say that eviction isn't of concern to us.
3:10:28
Eviction is absolutely of concern to us.
3:10:31
Housing stability matters very much.
3:10:33
It's why we continue to invest in programs like one shots and Right to But in terms of our ability to affect the shelter census, I don't think eviction is the right place
