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Council member inquires about Emergency Housing Services statistics and information gaps
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Council Member Pierina Ana Sanchez asks about statistics related to Emergency Housing Services, highlighting the lack of public information. She inquires about the number of units and households affected by vacate orders in fiscal year 2024, and how many were served by American Red Cross (ARC) versus Emergency Housing Services (EHS) shelters.
- Sanchez notes that EHS shelters hosted over 476 single adults and 500 families in fiscal year 2024.
- She points out that there's very little information about EHS on HPD's website.
- The council member seeks to understand the gap between those facing displacement and those receiving services.
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:31:33
Now a couple of numbers questions.
1:31:35
Emergency housing service shelters hosted more than four seventy six single adults and 500 families in fiscal year twenty twenty four, including 300 families with children.
1:31:46
These days lasted on average five ninety two days for single adults and three thirty seven days for families with children.
1:31:53
This is the long haul.
1:31:54
This is information that we obtained through city limits and city limits obtained from you all because there's no information really on emergency housing services work on HPD's website.
1:32:04
There's only two sentences that describe the program and so there's just a large gap here in information.
1:32:12
So you spoke about the process for a displaced household, but in terms of the numbers how many and this might be DOB NHPD tag teaming the answer to this question.
1:32:26
How many units, how many households say in fiscal year twenty four had vacate orders issued and needed or could not stay in their homes versus how many were served by ARC versus how many eventually were housed within within EHS shelters.
1:32:48
Our goal is to understand the gap between how many folks are facing displacement versus receiving ARC services receiving EHS services.