I guess the other question I have, and I guess this might be in general for everyone, and I'm sorry I take like everyone's questions, but just even when we're talking about as, you know, we're we're thinking about and like you said, even in the RFP around expanding what that looks like and so obviously needing supportive housing, how is everyone working together that this is going to be equitably distributed throughout the city?

Because my district as we all know and the South Bronx and the West Bronx, we see a lot of these and we carry the burden and so I know there was a question around like a site being closed in The Bronx and like someone's like, well why did that happen?

Because we have so many And so what is the plan about making sure this is being equitably distributed across the city and that everyone is welcome to be a part of the community and what does that look like because we obviously need to be expanding this and we need more supportive housing, but we can't keep putting them in the same five locations and in walking distance of each other because we would need to think about the burden.

So my community we're doing our part and we are taking our brothers and sisters in.

So how are you guys working to make sure that this is being equitably distributed across the city and understanding that this is a city issue and not just a Bronx issue or specific districts?

So I'll take that one.

HRA does coordination with DOHMH and HPD around the New York City Fifteen Fifteen implementation And so HRA does the procurement.

So what we do is we evaluate the proposals that come in under the RFP.

And then our colleagues at HPD, they're more they're more involved in the actual siting of programs and the capital that's needed for projects like congregate projects that are being developed in different boroughs, different neighborhoods.

And DOHMH is the HS

I think I understand the process, but that's not answering the question that I'm asking because even in that process, it's still not evenly distributed because often I the administration comes back and say, well, this is where it was available and this is where we had space and I'm almost positive other people have space in their districts.

So I would just love to hear how all of you are working together to make sure that this is equally being distributed across the city and not continue oversaturate boroughs like mine who already have high numbers of shelters and reentry programs and all the things and like I said, these are all my brothers and sisters, but we can't do everything.

I I think that what I would say is that we would need, our partner agency HPD to weigh in on that in terms of the citing of congregate programs.

But we are working with them on developing fifteen fifteen congregate programs, making sure that they have the service award, which is the services that go to the supportive housing population that will ultimately live in those programs.

Councilmember Stevens, thank you for that.

I hear you.

I hear you basically saying I know how you do the process and how you identify spaces and how you do it, but at the end of the day everything ends up in The Bronx and that's kind of the same thing that DA Clark says in terms of things in The Bronx.

And that is partly why two of our programs are not coming on because we understand that The Bronx has a lot.

And again, I wanna even shout out the Fortune Society, and I know I was pushing back on you guys, but they pulled it because they understood I have way too many.

And so part of what we did in terms of that was to go now and start having one on one conversations with your partners, right, and your constituents to say, hi.

We need to be able to house people.

We need to be able to deliver these services.

Let's work together to find places that can actually accommodate and where you will see that we are good neighbors.

So we are in the process of literally going around and talking to find places that are not in the locations where we have had an over saturation of services.

Yeah and I just want to also point out like because I think we get pushed back.

One, it's not about being good neighbors, it is about even me as a council member.

I get the same amount of services that everyone gets and sometimes less, but I am getting a lot more work to do and it's and it's too much and where you know we sit here and a lot of time my colleagues they'll say we want more we want more but then when it's time to have sightings they're pushing back and so I am being clear that we cannot do this alone, that everyone needs to be looking in their districts to make sure that if there is space or if there's projects coming in that they're saying, hey, I've identified a space because they are good partners but I just cannot do it all and myself and Salamanca and Purina who we have a over saturation of not just these programs but all the shelters that come in, we cannot do it all.

In the same way everyone is pushing back saying we want to loosen things up, we want to see supportive housing, I need members to also do the same work to make sure that they're finding sites in their district to house these folks because they're part of our communities.

Thank Thank you and we welcome your sending members our way who are the ones that are ready to do that work.