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What are the reasons for hotels not extending contracts with NYC for housing homeless families?

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The administrator from the NYC Department of Homeless Services explains that sometimes hotels may not want to extend contracts.

Hotels may decide they can do better business than contracting with the city
The city hopes it will not need to enter into many more hotel contracts
The city aims to utilize Tier 2 shelters instead of hotels when possible
During the current surge, the city has had to open hotel facilities despite preferring not to use hotels

Diana I. Ayala

1:38:04

Yeah.

1:38:04

I mean, it's still happening, though.

1:38:06

And what what do you mean?

1:38:07

Eva Eva Hotel acts the HS to exit are in their contracts that are signed for a specific amount of time.

Joslyn Carter

1:38:15

Sometimes Sounds

Diana I. Ayala

1:38:16

sounds very spontaneous.

Joslyn Carter

1:38:17

Sometimes there's a a reason the hotel may not wanna extend the contract.

1:38:21

Some right?

1:38:21

It you know, a contract against them to decide that they could do better business than us.

Diana I. Ayala

1:38:28

I mean, hopefully, you don't we're gonna entering into many more contracts, but in the Maybe we hopefully not.

1:38:34

We've learned to maybe when their families, the children, to extend them through the end June.

Joslyn Carter

1:38:39

Until the end of June.

1:38:40

Yes.

1:38:40

So hopefully, we can get real tier twos, and we can get open sites, and and I'd have to use hotels.

1:38:45

So hope you know, I'm hopeful that we can get tattoos because, you know, we don't want to have to use hotels.

1:38:51

And in this Yeah.

1:38:52

You know, surge that has happened, right, we've had to open hotels, which we we you know, we were very excited when we didn't have to, but right now we

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