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Q&A on supportive housing eligibility for justice-involved individuals
2:51:35
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3 min
Council Member Stevens questions the Department of Social Services about expanding eligibility criteria for supportive housing to include more justice-involved individuals. Craig Retchless from HRA explains the current eligibility criteria and the department's stance on the proposed legislation.
- Discussion of Intro 1100, which aims to expand supportive housing eligibility
- Explanation of current eligibility criteria for justice-involved individuals
- HRA does not support the bill as written but is open to further discussions
- Acknowledgment of addressing criminal justice and hospital populations in current criteria
Althea V. Stevens
2:51:35
This question is for the Department of Social Services.
2:51:37
In a report released in 2022, the Corporation for Supportive Housing estimated that there was about 2,589 people in custody in Rockhurst in a given year who needed supportive housing but more than have to not meet the current eligibility criteria for justice involved supportive housing because city regulation on longer considering them chronically homeless once they were in the ruckus for more than ninety days.
2:52:01
Do you support the introduction of 1,100 sponsored by member of VERE who required DSS to expand the eligibility permanently to ensure more people people just justly involved could be placed in supportive housing, it would not be barred due to the ninety day rule.
Craig Retchless
2:52:27
So we did address the criminal justice and hospital population that were impacted by the HUD chronic definition that they would not be eligible otherwise.
2:52:44
So that definition allows for individuals that have either a hospital and or a jail stay within the last four years and one hundred and eighty days in homeless time.
2:53:04
And so that's a much, much lower threshold than the HUD chronic definition, which states that somebody has to have either a continuous homeless period of three sixty five days or four episodes of homelessness that add up to three sixty five days.
2:53:32
So we feel that the amendment to the RFP is a good solution and target for those that are cycling in and out of hospital and in out of in and out of jails.
2:53:48
So
Althea V. Stevens
2:53:49
that was a lot of words.
2:53:51
So do you support the bill?
2:53:53
Because I know you're saying in accordance with RFP, it addresses some of it, but it doesn't address all of it.
2:53:57
And so
Craig Retchless
2:53:58
So I don't we don't DSS does not support the bill as it's written now, but we are happy to, you know, further discuss the bill with the council members, but we also wanted to put put it out there that we we have addressed to a certain extent the criminal justice and hospital populations that, you know, are not meeting the HUD chronic criteria for New York City Fifteen Fifteen.