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Interagency collaboration on housing assistance for ineligible referrals
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Deputy Commissioner Hershkovich-Kim and Chief Special Services Officer Rojas explain the process of assisting individuals who are ineligible for APS but need housing assistance, highlighting interagency collaboration.
- APS provides referrals to other services for ineligible individuals needing housing assistance
- Collaboration with HRA's housing side and DSS office of civil justice
- Information provided on alternative means to obtain housing assistance outside of APS
Crystal Hudson
0:33:34
And then are you having conversations with with colleagues in your agency and other agencies around some of these trends and patterns, specifically around housing?
0:33:45
If you're seeing an increased number of people who are being referred to you with eviction cases or housing court cases that aren't necessarily eligible for APS, what does that process look like in terms of getting them housing assistance specifically?
Gili Hershkovich-Kim
0:34:00
So again we will often if an individual is not eligible for APS services and in need for a subsidy, we will provide them with referral to either home based services, any type of applications that are available, if they need relocation like to NYCHA, to supportive housing.
0:34:21
It wouldn't be really supportive housing, but any type of assisted living or or any type of other case management agency that can assist them with relocation.
0:34:31
So one, we really care about New Yorkers and we really care about New Yorkers being housing stable.
0:34:40
So when when we are not the right entity, we we take every effort possible to assure that the client has the individual has the information of how to access services from other entities.
John Rojas
0:34:54
Would also add on the administrative level, you know, just the client level, we start we work with our colleagues in our housing side of HRA as well as our DSS office of civil justice to ensure individuals have right to counsel as well as other means of obtaining city preps that may not be through APS if you're a veteran or if you have a rent stabilized apartment.
0:35:18
So we want to ensure that folks are aware of the other means to get other types of housing assistance other than coming through the door of APS because there are other mechanisms to obtain other services.