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Tabulation of paper applications and equal treatment in the lottery process
0:56:50
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Council Member Sanchez inquires about the process of tabulating paper applications and their treatment in the lottery system. HPD officials explain the procedure for entering paper applications into Housing Connect and confirm that paper and digital applications are treated equally in the selection process.
- Marketing agent staff enters paper applications into Housing Connect after the lottery deadline
- HPD virtually monitors the entry process to ensure accuracy
- Paper and digital applications are grouped together and assigned random log numbers
- There is no difference in treatment between paper and digital applications in the lottery process
Pierina Ana Sanchez
0:56:50
Thank you.
0:56:55
And and sorry, last one on this.
0:56:56
Who tabulates the paper applications?
0:56:59
Who sort of enters them to where
0:57:50
Got it.
0:57:50
So there's no different treatment in terms of preference for digital or paper applications.
0:57:58
They're treated the same way?
0:57:58
That's
Emily Osgood
0:57:01
they need to be?
0:57:03
After the lottery deadline date when paper applications are submitted, mailed in, then the marketing agent staff enters the mark the paper applications into Housing Connect as part of a structured organized event that the agency does virtual monitoring of to make sure that everything is going smoothly and that we can answer any questions or issues that may come up during that time.
0:57:35
When all of the paper applications are entered into Housing Connect, they're grouped together with all the online applications for that same lottery.
0:57:42
That's when the system applies a random log number to each one and the batch processing and eligibility review begins.
Ahmed Tigani
0:57:59
correct.
0:57:59
That's right.