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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Housing support for justice-involved individuals
3:14:08
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Deanna Logan emphasizes the importance of housing support for justice-involved individuals and describes MOCJ's initiatives in this area.
- Highlights housing as a foundational building block of stability
- Program participants are about 30% less likely to be rearrested in the year after transitional housing
- Evolved from a pandemic-era emergency program into a sustainable system
- Helps thousands of individuals annually, with hundreds finding safe permanent housing
Deanna Logan
3:14:08
We are looking forward to share more as the pilot continues.
3:14:16
A foundational building block of stability is housing.
3:14:21
Without reliable place to leave your things and come back to, individuals leaving jail or prison are far more likely to spiral and find themselves once again navigating the criminal legal system.
3:14:37
Providing someone the stability of a home, they will be less likely to fall back into the cycles of crime.
3:14:47
Participants in our program are about 30% less likely to be rearrested in the year after transitional housing compared to where they were the year prior to entering that transitional housing.
3:15:02
This program evolved from a pandemic era emergency program into a remarkable sustainable system that helps thousands of individuals every year with hundreds of people leveraging that support to find stability, but more importantly to get safe permanent housing.
3:15:28
These programs work and a significant part of this work that must not be forgotten is that the providers of all of the services that we contract for are caring professionals who ensure that they offer solutions centered on the people that they are serving.
3:15:52
Given the essential foundation housing provides, we also fight to keep the housing market affordable for all New Yorkers through the work of our office of special enforcement.