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QUESTION
What provisions are available at shelters for new arrivals?
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The testimony indicates that shelters primarily provide bad food, bad feelings, WiFi, and metro cards, with no mention of education or support services.
- The council member inquires about the availability of essential services like English classes, legal aid, and social work in shelters.
- A member of the public, giving testimony in French, does not mention the provision of any educational or support services in shelters.
- The only benefits noted in the testimony are WiFi and metro cards, alongside complaints about food quality and general dissatisfaction.
- The response highlights a lack of essential support services for new arrivals at shelters.
Gale Brewer
0:42:16
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0:42:25
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0:42:26
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0:42:30
Clay Bianca, but those at DC.
0:42:32
Major part on long delay.
0:42:33
Okay.
0:42:34
So my question is when you first came, it's the same issue.
0:42:38
Was there anybody in the first shelter who said English classes, work, legal, social work, casework, anything like that.
UNKNOWN
0:43:21
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UNKNOWN
0:43:23
He said, I don't know what shelters provide offers English classes, but in the shelters that I've been to, the only thing that I've experienced other thing that I've previous previously mentioned, which is bad food, bad bad feelings, and and except the WiFi and the metro cards pretty much nothing else.