Education on September 17, 2026

0:49 FOR THE RECORD MY NAME IS BRIAN

0:51 WORRELL DISTRICT FOR CITY

0:52 COUNCILOR AND I'M THE VICE

0:54 CHAIR OF THE BOSTON CITY

0:55 COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

0:57 AND I WILL BE CONDUCTING

0:58 TODAY'S HEARING AND THE CHAIR'S

0:59 ABSENCE TODAY IS SEPTEMBER

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2:04 TODAY'S HEARING IS ON DOCKET

2:06 NUMBER 0507.

2:08 ORDER FOR A HEARING TO DISCUSS

2:10 STRATEGIES TO PREVENT HOMELESS

2:11 HOMELESSNESS AMONG STUDENTS IN

2:13 THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

2:15 THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY

2:16 COUNCILOR BEN WEBER, LIZ

2:18 BREADON AND COUNCILOR JULIE

2:20 MEJIA REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE

2:22 ON MARCH 11TH, 2026.

2:24 TODAY I'M JOINED BY MY

2:26 COUNCIL COLLEAGUES IN ORDER

2:27 OF ARRIVAL COUNCIL PRESIDENT

2:28 BREADON, COUNCILOR WEBER,

2:30 COUNCILOR FLYNN AND

2:31 COUNCILOR COLETTA ZAPATA.

2:33 WE ALSO HAVE A LETTER

2:34 OF ABSENCE FROM COUNCILOR UH

2:37 MEJIA, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND

2:40 COUNCILOR PEPEN.

2:40 I'LL NOW TURN IT OVER TO THE

2:44 ORIGINAL UM CO-SPONSOR ORIGINAL

2:46 SPONSOR COUNCIL WEBER AND THEN

2:48 THEN TO THE REST OF MY

2:49 COLLEAGUES FOR OPENING

2:50 STATEMENTS.

2:51 COUNCIL WEBER.

2:51 THE FLOOR IS YOURS.

2:53 OKAY.

2:54 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:55 UH, CHAIR WORRELL UH, MY

2:57 THOUGHTS ARE WITH, UH, CHAIR

2:59 MEJIA TODAY.

3:00 UM, UH, I JUST I'D ALSO LIKE TO

3:03 THANK COUNCILORS BREADON AND

3:04 MEJIA FOR FOR CO-SPONSORING

3:06 THIS HEARING.

3:06 UH, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT

3:08 HOMELESSNESS TODAY.

3:09 I JUST WANT TO LEVEL SET.

3:12 UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A REALLY

3:14 ,UH, INFORMATIVE ARTICLE BY

3:16 THE BOSTON COLLEGE OF SCHOOL.

3:17 SOCIAL WORK.

3:18 UH, REPORT UH, THAT CAME OUT I

3:20 THINK IN THE SPRING OF 2026

3:22 CALLED SCHOOL HOUSING

3:24 PARTNERSHIP ACHIEVEMENT AND

3:26 CHALLENGES IN BOSTON,

3:27 MASSACHUSETTS.

3:28 AND THEY LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE

3:30 DOING AND WHAT WE'RE DOING

3:31 RIGHT AND WHAT WE NEED TO WORK

3:32 ON.

3:33 UM, BUT IN THAT REPORT THEY

3:35 DEFINE HOMELESSNESS.

3:36 SO I JUST I THINK IT'S

3:37 IMPORTANT JUST TO LOOK AT THAT.

3:39 THEY SAY HOMELESSNESS IS LACKED

3:40 LACKING FIXED REGULAR AND

3:42 ADEQUATE NIGHTTIME RESIDENTS

3:43 AND LIVING UH AND LIVING IN A

3:47 SHELTER IN PUBLIC OR PRIVATE

3:48 PLACES NOT MEANT FOR HUMAN

3:49 SLEEPING AT MOTELS, HOTELS,

3:51 TRAILER PARKS OR CAMPGROUNDS

3:53 BECAUSE NO ALTERNATIVE ADEQUATE

3:55 ALTERNATIVE OPTION EXISTS AND

3:58 UH, ONE VERSION IS DOUBLING UP

4:01 UNDER FINANCIAL DURESS.

4:03 SO IT'S WE KNOW WHERE PEOPLE

4:04 ARE LIVING WITH ANOTHER FAMILY

4:05 BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO

4:07 LIVE IN THEIR IN THEIR HOUSING.

4:09 AND I THINK PART OF THE REASON

4:11 WHY IT'S SO HARD TO TRACK HOW

4:12 MANY STUDENTS ARE EXPERIENCING

4:14 HOMELESSNESS IS BECAUSE WE WE

4:15 DON'T REALLY KNOW WHEN FAMILIES

4:16 ARE DOUBLING UP.

4:18 BUT THAT PRACTICE YOU KNOW WE

4:19 CAN TALK ABOUT THAT BUT THAT IS

4:21 UM YOU KNOW, PART OF WHAT WE'RE

4:22 TALKING ABOUT.

4:23 SO THE.

4:24 THE SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK.

4:25 LAYS OUT, YOU KNOW, A LOT

4:27 OF SOBERING STATISTICS.

4:29 FAMILY HOME FAMILY HOMELESSNESS

4:31 IS ON THE RISE BUT.

4:33 IT'S.

4:33 ESPECIALLY CRITICAL TO.

4:35 ASSIST ESPECIALLY.

4:35 CRITICAL PROBLEM HERE IN

4:37 MASSACHUSETTS WHERE ACCORDING

4:39 TO THE.

4:39 REPORT ROUGHLY ONE IN EVERY TEN

4:42 FAMILIES EXPERIENCING

4:43 HOMELESSNESS NATIONWIDE OR IN

4:46 MASSACHUSETTS UM, DURING THE

4:49 2024 TO 2025 SCHOOL YEAR, THE

4:51 REPORT SAYS 5405 STUDENTS WERE

4:54 IDENTIFIED AS HOMELESS A NUMBER

4:56 THAT'S INCREASING EVERY YEAR

4:57 AND INCREASING AS A PERCENTAGE

4:59 OF THE STUDENTS IN OUR NPS

5:01 EVERY YEAR.

5:02 NOW IT'S MORE THAN 10% OF OUR

5:04 STUDENT BODY.

5:06 UH, I'M REPEATEDLY TOLD THAT

5:07 THAT NUMBER IS LOWER THAN THE

5:09 ACTUAL NUMBER BECAUSE AGAIN,

5:10 IT'S HARD TO IDENTIFY EVERYONE

5:13 OUT THERE WHO'S EXPERIENCING

5:14 HOMELESSNESS UH, ESPECIALLY

5:16 THOSE WHO ARE WHO ARE WHO ARE

5:17 DOUBLING UP DUE TO FINANCIAL

5:19 DISTRESS.

5:19 WE GET SO.

5:21 UM AND SO AND THE DATA OR THE

5:23 STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT

5:24 EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS HAS A

5:26 TANGIBLE NEGATIVE IMPACT ON OUR

5:27 STUDENTS.

5:28 A STUDY OF 15 YEAR OLDS FOUND

5:30 THAT THEY HAVE LOWER GRADES,

5:32 WORSE TEST SCORES, HIGHER

5:33 ABSENTEEISM AND MORE BEHAVIORAL

5:35 PROBLEMS IN SCHOOL IF THEY'VE

5:36 HAD EVEN ONE EPISODE OF HOUSING

5:39 STABILITY HOUSING INSTABILITY

5:40 BY THE AGE OF NINE.

5:41 AND THERE'S EVEN THE STUDIES

5:42 SHOW THAT THOSE KIDS WHO HAVE

5:44 HAD ISSUES OF HOMELESSNESS.

5:46 SCORE WORSE THAN THEIR PEERS

5:48 WHO ARE MERELY IN LOW INCOME

5:50 HOUSEHOLDS.

5:51 SO IT'S JUST THAT ONE EPISODE

5:53 OF HOMELESSNESS WE SEE THE

5:55 EFFECTS, YOU KNOW, UH,

5:57 DOWNSTREAM ANOTHER BIT OF DATA

5:58 FROM THE BCA REPORT, YOU KNOW,

6:00 THOUGHT IS WORTH HIGHLIGHTING

6:01 IS WHO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

6:03 SO YOU KNOW, I HAD I HAD UH UH

6:06 AN ISSUE IN MY DISTRICT IN WEST

6:08 ROXBURY OPENING UP, UH, YOU

6:10 KNOW, AN EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE

6:11 SHELTER.

6:12 THE STATE WAS UH, THERE AND

6:14 THERE WAS A LOT OF PUSHBACK AND

6:16 YOU GO INTO THESE MEETINGS AND

6:18 PEOPLE TALK.

6:19 ABOUT WELL.

6:20 THEY'RE GOING TO BRING MASS AND

6:21 CASS TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

6:23 THESE PEOPLE THEY'RE GOING TO

6:24 YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GOING TO BE

6:25 DRUG ADDICTS.

6:26 THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE CRIMINAL

6:27 RECORDS.

6:28 AND YOU KNOW, FROM MY

6:29 EXPERIENCE AND I RECOMMEND

6:31 ANYONE GO TO HORIZONS FOR THE

6:32 HOMELESS, UH, TO.

6:35 WHICH PROVIDES DAYCARE AND

6:36 PRE-K FOR PEOPLE WITH KIDS IN

6:38 THE SHELTER SYSTEM.

6:39 THESE ARE.

6:40 SINGLE MOMS WITH YOUNG KIDS.

6:42 THEY'RE OFTEN, YOU KNOW.

6:44 STILL WORKING SOME OF YOU KNOW,

6:46 SOME HAVE JUST LOST.

6:47 THEIR.

6:47 JOB OR THEY'VE HAD SOME ISSUE

6:49 AND THEY JUST HAVE NO SAFETY

6:50 NET.

6:51 AND SO THEY'RE PLACED INTO THIS

6:52 SYSTEM.

6:53 AND THE DATA FROM.

6:54 THE SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKS

6:55 REPORT.

6:55 SHOWS THAT THESE WERE PRIMARILY

6:57 YOUNG MOMS WITH 2 TO 3 KIDS.

6:59 OVER 80% OF THEM HAVE GRADUATED

7:01 FROM HIGH SCHOOL, 20% CLOSE TO

7:03 HER GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE.

7:05 UH, AND THEY'RE YOU KNOW, THEY

7:07 JUST THEY NEED SOME HELP AND

7:08 THEY THEY AND YOU KNOW, WE I

7:11 THINK, YOU KNOW, HAVE TO DO

7:12 MORE TO TO HELP THEM SO.

7:14 AND JUST THIS MORNING OKAY I

7:15 THINK I TALKED TO CORY I SPOKE

7:17 TO A WOMAN WHO MET THAT

7:19 DESCRIPTION.

7:20 SHE'S IN A NEAR SHELTER HERE IN

7:21 BOSTON.

7:22 UH SHE'S A GRADUATE OF BLS.

7:24 SHE'S GOT TWO KINDERGARTNERS,

7:26 ONE WITH AUTISM.

7:28 UH, AND SHE'S A REGISTERED

7:29 NURSE AND JUST YOU KNOW, IT'S

7:31 SOMETIMES THERE'S JUST NO HELP

7:33 AND, UH, NOW SHE'S IN THE

7:35 SHELTER AND, YOU KNOW, UH, SHE

7:38 WAS ASKING FOR FOR HELP, UH,

7:40 AND I YOU KNOW, I THINK, YOU

7:41 KNOW, HAVING SAID THIS HEARING,

7:43 I THINK I HAVE SOME IDEAS FOR

7:44 WHERE SHE.

7:45 CAN GO AND HELP.

7:45 FOR HELP NOW AND WHAT WE CAN DO

7:47 TO.

7:47 HELP THAT.

7:49 SO HAS A PROGRAM WE STARTED IN

7:50 2019 PURSUANT TO I THINK IT'S

7:52 THE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG

7:53 DANIEL IT'S THE MCKINNEY-VENTO

7:55 VENTO ACT.

7:57 UH WHICH UH.

7:58 REQUIRES THAT SCHOOL DISTRICTS

7:59 HAVE UH HELP KIDS WITH

8:01 HOMELESSNESS.

8:01 SO HERE IN BOSTON WE.

8:02 HAVE WHAT'S CALLED THE.

8:03 EARLY HOMELESSNESS INTERVENTION

8:04 PROGRAM I.

8:05 APOLOGIZE CHAIR I'M GOING.

8:06 ON A LITTLE LONGER THAN.

8:07 NORMAL BUT JUST TRYING TO.

8:08 LIKE MAKE SURE EVERYONE'S ON

8:09 THE SAME PAGE HERE.

8:10 THE IS DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY

8:12 FAMILIES AND EXPERIENCING

8:14 HOMELESSNESS USING, UH, FAMILY

8:16 LIAISONS IN THE SCHOOLS AND

8:17 HOMELESS LIAISONS AND IT.

8:19 CORRECT CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG

8:21 THERE AND THEN THE HOMELESS

8:22 LIAISONS REFER THEM TO FAMILY

8:24 AID.

8:25 UH WHICH UH THEN CONNECTS.

8:27 WHICH HAS SOCIAL WORKERS THAT.

8:28 WORK WITH THE FAMILIES CONNECT

8:29 THEM WITH VOUCHER PROGRAMS.

8:31 ALL OF US HERE HAVE STRONGLY

8:33 SUPPORTED THE CITY HOUSING

8:34 VOUCHER PROGRAM.

8:34 IT'S ONE OF THE USES FOR IT UM

8:36 AND BENEFITS UH APPLICATIONS

8:39 AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT.

8:41 UM THE THE PROBLEM THAT THE BCC

8:43 STUDY FOUND.

8:45 UH WAS REALLY TWOFOLD.

8:47 ONE WE JUST DON'T HAVE ENOUGH

8:48 RESOURCES FOR THE DEMAND AND

8:51 TWO WE HAVE A PROBLEM

8:53 IDENTIFYING.

8:54 THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THE HELP

8:56 OKAY.

8:56 AND IT JUST WE SEEN THIS

8:58 THROUGH THE ACCESS TO

8:59 COUNCILOR PROGRAM THAT IT'S

9:00 JUST IT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY TO TO

9:02 KNOW WHO IN YOUR SCHOOL IS IS.

9:05 AT.

9:06 RISK OF HOMELESSNESS WHO'S EVEN

9:07 BEEN SENT TO.

9:08 A SHELTER.

9:09 SO YOU KNOW THE THE BCA REPORT

9:11 POINTS OUT THAT WE NEED TO DO A

9:12 BETTER JOB IDENTIFYING THE

9:13 PEOPLE AND THEN HAVING THE

9:15 RESOURCES THERE WHEN WE DO.

9:16 IN FACT.

9:17 THE WOMAN I SPOKE TO THIS

9:19 MORNING, UH, WAS IN THIS

9:21 SHELTER.

9:21 SHE HAS A KID, UH, A

9:24 KINDERGARTNER AT.

9:25 SCHOOL.

9:25 UH, AT THE KILMER.

9:26 SHE AND.

9:27 SHE'S BEEN IN A SHELTER NOW

9:28 SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE

9:29 SUMMER AND HAS NOT HEARD FROM

9:31 BPA.

9:31 SO ALL RIGHT.

9:32 COREY, I'M GOING TO, YOU KNOW,

9:33 GET YOU HER NUMBER AND.

9:35 UH, YOU.

9:36 CAN YOU CAN TALK.

9:37 AND, UM, WE'LL SEE.

9:39 YOU KNOW HOW.

9:40 WE CAN HELP.

9:41 UH, SO I YOU KNOW, I'VE TALKED

9:42 TO THE BCC UH.

9:43 UH, SCHOOL.

9:44 COMMITTEE CHAIR JAY ROBINSON

9:45 I'M SURE WE.

9:46 ALL HAVE.

9:47 UH AND SHE TALKED.

9:48 ABOUT HOW.

9:49 IMPORTANT IT IS THAT THE THE

9:51 WHILE THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

9:53 THE SUPERINTENDENT FOCUS ON

9:55 CURRICULUM AND HELPING THE KIDS

9:56 DURING THE TIME THEY'RE IN THE

9:57 CLASSROOM, THE CITY

9:58 COUNCIL REALLY SHOULD BE DOING

9:59 EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO HELP

10:00 THESE.

10:01 KIDS IN ALL THE HOURS THAT

10:02 THEY'RE OUT OF OUT.

10:04 OF SCHOOL.

10:05 AND YOU KNOW, ONE TOOL IN

10:06 THEIR.

10:06 TOOLBOXES IS THE REHAB PROGRAM

10:08 THE EMERGENCY HOMELESSNESS

10:10 INTERVENTION PROGRAM.

10:10 ANOTHER TOOL IS THE ACCESS.

10:13 TO COUNCILOR PROGRAM, WHICH

10:14 WE UH.

10:15 STARTED A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO

10:16 IN WHICH DANIELLE CAN TALK.

10:17 ABOUT BUT.

10:18 THERE THERE ARE OTHER TOOLS

10:20 OUT THERE.

10:20 UH, AND WE OBVIOUSLY NEED TO

10:22 PUT MORE RESOURCES.

10:24 UM, INTO ALL OF.

10:26 THESE THINGS AND I THINK IT.

10:29 JUST YOU KNOW.

10:30 I GUESS LAST PART FOR MY

10:31 COLLEAGUES.

10:32 UM.

10:33 YOU KNOW, I THINK WE ALL

10:34 HAVE ISSUES.

10:34 THAT ARE.

10:35 VERY IMPORTANT IN OUR

10:36 DISTRICTS.

10:37 ACROSS THE WHOLE.

10:38 CITY AND WE ALL DO GREAT

10:39 WORK AND WE ALL HAVE.

10:40 OH.

10:41 YOU KNOW HONESTLY LIKE GREAT

10:43 STAFFS AND.

10:43 WE'RE WE'RE ALL DEDICATED TO

10:45 HELPING PEOPLE HERE IN THE

10:46 CITY.

10:47 I DO THINK THIS IS AN ISSUE

10:48 WHERE UH YOU KNOW, I THINK WE

10:50 ALL NEED TO PRIORITIZE AND NOT

10:53 JUST I KNOW ALL OF US.

10:54 YOU CAN SAY IN TERMS OF WORKING

10:57 FOR.

10:57 AFFORDABLE HOUSING OR YOU KNOW,

11:00 MANY DIFFERENT THINGS AND

11:01 THEY'RE GREAT PROGRAMS AND

11:02 THEY'LL HAVE.

11:03 SORT OF A KNOCK ON EFFECT TO

11:05 HELP KIDS IN THE LONG RUN.

11:07 YOU KNOW THIS NUMBER 5400 KIDS

11:11 EACH.

11:12 YEAR EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS

11:13 LIKE I.

11:13 JUST I THINK WE COULD DO A

11:15 LOT IF WE ALL WORK TOGETHER.

11:17 TO TRY TO REDUCE THAT NUMBER.

11:19 IT COULD.

11:20 BE BY A THOUSAND, IT COULD BE

11:21 BY 100, IT COULD BE BY.

11:22 A DOZEN COULD BE BY ONE.

11:24 BUT UH YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE.

11:26 ARE.

11:26 TOOLS THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY MAKE

11:28 A CONCRETE DIFFERENCE LIKE

11:28 RIGHT NOW.

11:29 FOR THESE.

11:30 KIDS AND, UH.

11:32 YOU KNOW, I JUST I DON'T

11:33 WANT TO SEE THAT NUMBER GO UP.

11:35 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHAIR.

11:36 I APPRECIATE THE EXTRA TIME

11:38 .

11:38 THANK YOU.

11:39 COUNCILOR, I JUST WANT TO

11:40 ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT

11:41 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD HAS JOINED

11:42 US.

11:43 COUNCILOR BREADON, THE FLOOR IS

11:43 YOURS.

11:45 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

11:47 UM, AND THANK YOU TO

11:49 COUNCIL WEBER FOR, UM, LEADING

11:51 THIS UM CO-SPONSORING THIS

11:53 MEETING, THE SPONSORING THIS

11:55 HEARING.

11:56 UM, I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING

11:59 WE GRAPPLED WITH FOR MANY, MANY

12:00 YEARS.

12:01 I KNOW THAT ALLSTON BRIGHTON

12:03 CDC WE PRODUCED REPORT LIKE 20

12:05 YEARS AGO MORE THAN 20 YEARS

12:06 AGO BUT RISING RENTS CLOSING

12:08 DOORS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

12:10 AND THE REALITY IS THAT FOR

12:12 MANY FAMILIES, UM, THEY'RE

12:14 COMPETING WITH GROUPS OF YOUNG

12:16 ADULTS WHO CAN AFFORD TO GROUP

12:17 TOGETHER AND PAY MUCH MORE IN

12:19 RENT THAN A WORKING FAMILY CAN.

12:22 SO WE SEE IT ALL THE TIME THAT

12:25 UM, FAMILIES ARE BEING SORT

12:27 OF PUSHED OUT OF OUR

12:28 NEIGHBORHOODS BECAUSE THEY

12:29 CAN'T AFFORD TO STAY ANYMORE.

12:30 SO I THINK WE REALLY THE IN

12:33 TERMS OF ADDRESSING THIS IN A

12:34 BIGGER BIGGER PICTURE MORE

12:36 LONGER TERM WE REALLY HAVE TO

12:38 DO MORE AND ADDING TO TRY AND

12:40 ADD MORE UH, MIXED INCOME

12:42 AFFORDABLE FAMILY HOUSING

12:44 ACROSS THE BOARD.

12:47 UM AND AGAIN, THAT'S SOMETHING

12:49 WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IN OUR

12:50 DISTRICT WITH SOME SUCCESS.

12:53 BUT UM, I THINK IT'S IT IS

12:55 REALLY CRITICALLY IMPORTANT

12:57 THAT WE SHOULD TRY AND LEVEL

12:58 THE PLAYING FIELDS FOR FOR

13:00 FAMILIES IN THE CITY SO THAT

13:02 THEY CAN ACTUALLY AFFORD TO

13:04 STAY UM, DISPLACEMENT

13:06 OF FAMILIES AND UH IS A REALLY

13:09 CRITICAL ISSUE FOR OUR SCHOOLS

13:11 AND FOR OUR UM, COMMUNITIES.

13:14 UH, IF WE WANT TO MAKE THIS

13:15 MAKE THE CITY UH, A LONG TERM

13:18 PROPOSITION FOR FAMILIES WHO

13:20 REALLY, REALLY WANT TO STAY,

13:21 THEN WE HAVE TO ADDRESS THE

13:22 ISSUE ABOUT HOUSING.

13:23 BUT AGAIN, I'M I'M REALLY

13:25 DELIGHTED TO HAVE FOLKS FROM

13:27 DPS AND FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

13:29 OF HOUSING STABILITY TO UM, UH,

13:33 REALLY SORT OF TACKLE THE THE

13:36 PROBLEM, HAVE A CONVERSATION

13:37 ABOUT THE PROBLEM AND SEE WHAT

13:38 OTHER SOLUTIONS WE CAN BRING

13:39 FORWARD IN THE SHORTER TERM.

13:41 IS THIS A SHORT TERM ISSUE WHAT

13:44 WE CAN DO IN THE SHORT TERM AND

13:45 THEN WHAT WHAT WE CAN DO IN THE

13:47 LONGER TERM TO TRY AND

13:48 ALLEVIATE THIS THIS CHALLENGE

13:50 THAT WE HAVE WHICH IS ONGOING

13:51 AND HAS NOT UH WE HAVE IMPROVED

13:54 I THINK BUT THERE'S STILL A LOT

13:55 OF WORK TO DO AND I LOOK

13:57 FORWARD TO HEARING HOW I WOULD

13:58 HAVE IT PROGRESSING AND HOW

14:00 THESE RECENT INITIATIVES HAVE

14:02 IMPACTED, UM, OUR RESPONSE TO

14:04 FAMILY HOMELESSNESS IN THE

14:05 CITY.

14:07 THANK YOU.

14:09 UM, ALSO JUST WANT TO

14:11 ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, THE WORK THAT

14:12 COUNCILOR UH NECESSARY GEORGE

14:14 HAS DONE ON THIS WORK AND AND

14:16 SHE'S HERE IN THE CHAMBERS WITH

14:18 US AS WELL.

14:18 UH, COUNCILOR FLAN, THE FLOOR

14:20 IS YOURS.

14:21 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

14:22 AND THANK YOU TO THE SPONSORS.

14:25 UM, I'M GLAD YOU MENTIONED

14:27 COUNCILOR SABI.

14:28 GEORGE AND THE WORK SHE DID ON

14:32 THIS ISSUE.

14:33 I I REMEMBER COUNCILOR SABI

14:36 GEORGE WOULD BE IN THE ROOM.

14:38 THERE WAS ACTUALLY A A

14:40 COMMISSION THAT WAS ESTABLISHED

14:43 I BELIEVE BY MAYOR WALSH AND

14:46 WHO WAS SUPPORTED BY THE CITY

14:49 COUNCIL AND UH COUNCILOR SABI

14:50 GEORGE BUT THEY.

14:52 THE ACTIVISTS.

14:53 AND THE.

14:54 THE PROVIDERS THE HOUSING

14:56 PROVIDERS WOULD FREQUENTLY MEET

14:58 IN THE ROOM AND DISCUSS

15:00 LITERALLY DISCUSS INDIVIDUAL

15:02 CASES BY CASES I BELIEVE UM

15:06 ABOUT FAMILIES AND HOW YOU

15:09 SUPPORT THEM AND AND AND TRYING

15:12 TO GET THEM INTO HOUSING BUT I

15:15 DO KNOW THAT THE CITY CITY

15:18 COUNCIL ONE TIME WAS REALLY THE

15:20 LEAD ON HOMELESSNESS IN THE

15:23 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AND

15:26 THAT WAS UNDER COUNCILOR SABI

15:28 GEORGE.

15:29 I WOULD GO IN THERE AND LISTEN

15:30 TO THE CONVERSATIONS BUT THEY

15:32 WERE HELPING SO MANY FAMILIES

15:35 THAT NEEDED SUPPORT AND I I'M

15:40 WONDERING, MR CHAIR, AND MAYBE

15:43 MAYBE SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE SOME

15:45 INFORMATION BUT IS THAT

15:46 COMMISSION STILL IN EFFECT?

15:50 UM I DON'T THINK A COMMISSION

15:51 ACTUALLY GOES AWAY BUT IF IT'S

15:54 IN EFFECT DOES IT ACTUALLY MEET

15:58 UM I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO

15:59 IT BUT MAYBE SOMEONE HERE DOES

16:01 .

16:01 BUT I DO KNOW THAT THAT

16:03 COMMISSION WORKING GROUP, UH,

16:07 PLAYED A CRITICAL ROLE IN THE

16:09 CITY BECAUSE I WOULD GO TO

16:10 THOSE MEETINGS FREQUENTLY.

16:11 THEY WERE OPEN TO THE.

16:12 PUBLIC AND YOU COULD GO IN

16:14 THERE AND LISTEN AND THEY WENT

16:15 BACK BUT THEY WERE SENT TO THE

16:18 HOUSING PROVIDERS.

16:19 THEY TALKED TO US AND IT WAS A

16:22 FASCINATING CONVERSATION.

16:23 BUT REGARDLESS I DO I DO

16:26 BELIEVE THIS IS A CRITICAL

16:27 ISSUE FACING SO MANY FAMILIES.

16:31 WE SHOULD NOT BE A CITY WHERE

16:33 CHILDREN IN OUR SYSTEM ARE

16:36 LIVING IN THEIR CAR OR LIVING

16:37 IN A VAN OR LIVING IN A

16:39 HOMELESS SHELTER.

16:40 IT'S UM LET'S WORK TOGETHER TO

16:42 .

16:43 PROVIDE HOUSING OPTIONS FOR

16:45 THE.

16:45 MOST UM IN NEED FAMILIES ACROSS

16:49 THE CITY.

16:50 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

16:51 THANK YOU.

16:52 UH, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

16:53 COUNCILORS COLLETTA ZAPATA.

16:55 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

16:56 UH, CHAIR.

16:57 AND I WANT TO THANK

16:58 COUNCIL WEBER FOR CREATING

16:59 SPACE TO CENTER OUR MOST

17:00 VULNERABLE AND, UM,

17:01 COUNCIL FLYNN IS RIGHT.

17:02 I WAS ALSO HERE TO WITNESS THE

17:03 GREATNESS, UM, FROM OUR

17:06 COUNCILOR UNNECESSARY, GEORGE.

17:07 UM, AND BRINGING ALL

17:08 STAKEHOLDERS TOGETHER AND

17:10 PUTTING FORTH SOME REAL

17:11 TANGIBLE SOLUTIONS FOR OUR

17:12 KIDS.

17:12 SO AND THAT WAS INFORMED BY HER

17:14 EXPERIENCE AS AN EDUCATOR.

17:15 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, LISA.

17:17 UM, YOUR STORY ABOUT THIS

17:19 BLESSED MOM IS JUST IT IS IT

17:22 REALLY IT REALLY GOT TO ME JUST

17:23 NOW.

17:24 I MEAN, SHE MEANT TO BE

17:25 BLESSED, RIGHT?

17:25 LIKE THAT'S THE BEST THE BEST

17:26 IN THE CITY.

17:27 SHE'S A SINGLE MOM.

17:28 SHE HAS TWO KIDS, ONE WITH

17:29 AUTISM.

17:30 UM, AND THE GREATEST NEED IN

17:32 THE WORLD LIKE THAT SHOULD NOT

17:33 BE HAPPENING.

17:33 UM, AND I THINK IT'S IT'S

17:35 INDICATIVE OF THE CONFLUENCE

17:36 OF THE MANY TERRIBLE

17:37 CIRCUMSTANCES THAT CAN HAPPEN

17:39 IN THIS CITY WHERE IT COULD BE

17:41 A JOB LOSS EVEN THOUGH SHE'S A

17:42 NURSE OR THE RISING HOUSING

17:43 COSTS OR SINGLE INCOME

17:45 HOUSEHOLD OR IT'S JUST ONE

17:47 EMERGENCY TO MANY WHERE PEOPLE

17:48 ARE LITERALLY THAT CLOSE TO

17:49 BEING HOMELESS IN THE CITY.

17:52 UM AND SO FOR ME THIS

17:53 CONVERSATION IS REALLY

17:54 IMPORTANT LIKE NO MATTER WHAT

17:55 IS HAPPENING AND YOU ALL HAVE

17:56 DONE INCREDIBLE WORK I WORK

17:57 WITH YOU ALL THE TIME DANIELLE

17:58 AND IN EAST BOSTON YOU KNOW,

18:00 WE'RE ACUTELY FEELING UM

18:02 DISPLACEMENT RIGHT NOW AND

18:04 SOMETIMES HOMELESSNESS.

18:06 UM BUT NO MATTER WHAT WE'RE

18:07 DOING WE COULD ALWAYS

18:08 STRENGTHEN OUR SAFETY NET FOR

18:10 OUR KIDS.

18:11 AND SO THAT'S THE PERSPECTIVE

18:12 THAT I HAVE COMING INTO THIS

18:13 CONVERSATION AND JUST MAKING

18:14 SURE NO MATTER WHAT WE'RE DOING

18:15 WE'RE LEADING WITH UM DIGNITY

18:16 AND COMPASSION FOR THESE FOLKS.

18:18 SO THANK YOU TO UH,

18:20 COUNCILOR WEBER AND EVERYONE

18:21 ELSE WHO WAS ALWAYS UM, REALLY

18:23 UH, PUTTING FORTH UH, PEOPLE

18:26 CLOSE TO THE PAIN.

18:28 UM, AS OUR CONGRESSMAN SAYS

18:29 WITHIN THESE POLICY

18:30 DISCUSSIONS.

18:31 SO THANK YOU.

18:32 THANK YOU, UH,

18:33 COUNCIL FITZGERALD FOR YOURS.

18:35 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

18:36 UH, THANK YOU PANEL FOR BEING

18:37 HERE.

18:37 I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK

18:39 COUNCILOR WEBER FOR FOR

18:39 BRINGING ATTENTION TO THIS, UH,

18:42 BEING THE CHAIR OF THE UH,

18:43 PUBLIC SAFETY, HOMELESSNESS AND

18:44 RECOVERY.

18:45 UH, WE'VE HAD TO DO A LOT WITH

18:46 THIS.

18:47 BUT THE BEST WAY TO PREVENT IT

18:48 IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE

18:49 EXPERIENCING IT WHILE THEY'RE

18:50 YOUNG DON'T HAVE TO, UH, AND

18:52 THINK THAT THAT'S THE NORM FOR

18:53 THEM AND GIVE THEM THE BEST

18:55 CHANCE, UH, AS THEY GO ALONG.

18:57 AND OF COURSE NOTHING'S EVER

18:58 CERTAIN BUT, UH, LET'S MAKE

19:00 SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE MOST

19:01 POTENTIAL AND PATHWAYS THAT

19:02 THEY CAN UM, TO KNOW WHAT

19:04 HAVING A HOME IS A LOVING HOME.

19:06 AND SO, UH, I LOOK FORWARD TO

19:08 THE PANEL.

19:08 I JUST WANT AGAIN THANK YOU,

19:09 COUNCILOR WEBER.

19:10 UM, AND THANK YOU, CHAIR.

19:11 THANK YOU.

19:12 UH, THANK YOU,

19:13 COUNCILOR WEBER.

19:14 UM, FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

19:15 UH, I WANT TO ALSO JUST THANK

19:17 MY COLLEAGUES FOR ALL THE

19:18 OPENING REMARKS AND ALSO THE

19:19 PANELISTS FOR ALL THE WORK THAT

19:21 THEY DO.

19:21 UH, BUT WE'RE HERE TO IMPROVE,

19:23 UH, THE SYSTEMS BECAUSE, UH, IT

19:25 IS SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, NO

19:26 KID, UH, NO CHILD IN THIS CITY

19:28 OF BOSTON SHOULD HAVE TO

19:29 EXPERIENCE.

19:30 SO WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO TURN

19:31 IT OVER TO OUR PANELISTS TO

19:33 INTRODUCE THEMSELVES AND TO

19:35 DIVE INTO THEIR PRESENTATION.

19:40 GOOD AFTERNOON.

19:41 MY NAME IS COREY MCCARTHY.

19:43 I AM THE CHIEF OF STUDENT

19:44 SUPPORT IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC

19:46 SCHOOLS.

19:47 UH, COUNCILOR WEBER, THANK YOU

19:48 FOR, UM, ACKNOWLEDGING THE

19:51 CONVERSATION WITH THE FAMILY

19:52 THIS MORNING.

19:53 UH, MY FIRST RESPONSE WAS A

19:55 REFERRAL COMPLETED AND ALSO IT

19:58 SORT OF SPEAKS TO SOME OF THE

20:00 SYMPTOMS, YOU KNOW, AROUND

20:02 SELF-IDENTIFICATION.

20:02 UM, SO I WAS HAPPY THAT THAT

20:04 FAMILY WAS ABLE TO FEEL

20:06 COMFORTABLE ENOUGH TO TO TO

20:08 SHARE THAT BARRIER WITH YOU.

20:10 UM, PLEASE GET GET OUR TEAM IN

20:13 CONTACT WITH THE FAMILY.

20:14 UH, IF YOU KNOW OUR WORK UM,

20:16 AND IN STUDENT SUPPORT AND, UM,

20:19 YOU KNOW, WE'RE BOOSTED AROUND,

20:22 UH, YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE THAT,

20:24 UH, CITY COUNCIL HAS SET UH, UM

20:27 ,THE MACROSCOPIC VIEW AND

20:30 MYSELF AND OUR PARTNERS AND OUR

20:32 COLLABORATORS AND OUR

20:32 COLLEAGUES ARE HERE TO SHARE

20:34 SOME OF THE MICROSCOPIC TO THE

20:36 GROUND STRATEGIC VIEWS.

20:38 UM, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO START

20:41 SAYING SOMETHING THAT REALLY

20:41 GROUNDS OUR APPROACH.

20:42 AND YOU KNOW, WHEN WE TALK

20:43 ABOUT HOMELESSNESS, UM, HOUSING

20:46 INSTABILITY, EVICTION, FAMILIES

20:48 DOUBLING UP UM, THOSE CAN VERY

20:52 EASILY BECOME SYSTEMIC AND UM

20:55 BUZZWORDS UM, THEY COULD BECOME

20:56 NUMBERS ON A SPREADSHEET.

20:58 BUT FOR US THESE ARE THESE ARE

20:59 CHILDREN UM THESE ARE CHILDREN

21:01 GETTING ON OUR BUSSES EVERY

21:03 MORNING.

21:03 UH, THEY'RE SITTING IN OUR

21:04 CLASSROOMS.

21:05 THEY'RE PLAYING IN OUR ON OUR

21:07 TEAMS UH THEY'RE APPLYING TO

21:08 COLLEGE.

21:09 THEY'RE TRYING TO PASS THE MCAT

21:11 AND OR PORTFOLIO.

21:12 THEY'RE TRYING TO BE TEENAGERS

21:14 WHILE SOMETIMES CARRYING ADULT

21:16 SIZE PROBLEMS.

21:18 UH, YOU KNOW, MANY OF THE

21:19 COMMUNITY THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW,

21:21 UM, WHAT THAT YOUNG PERSON HAS

21:24 GONE THROUGH THE NIGHT BEFORE.

21:26 UH, YOU KNOW, SIMILAR TO THE

21:28 THE DATA IS ALARMING.

21:29 AROUND 45,405 STUDENTS

21:31 EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, UH,

21:32 PART OF THE BCC REPORT.

21:34 THAT NUMBER SHOULD MAKE ALL

21:36 OF US UNCOMFORTABLE.

21:37 I ALSO WANT THE COUNCIL AND THE

21:38 PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND THAT

21:40 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS NOT

21:41 SITTING BACK WAITING FOR

21:43 FAMILIES TO BECOME HOMELESS

21:44 BEFORE WE ACT UH, OUR APPROACH

21:46 HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY

21:47 CENTERED AROUND THREE THINGS UH

21:49 ,COORDINATION, PREVENTION AND

21:52 A SUSTAINED RESPONSE.

21:53 AND UNDERNEATH ALL THREE IS ONE

21:55 FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF YOU KNOW

21:57 THAT OUR FAMILIES SHOULD NOT

21:58 HAVE TO WAIT FOR POLICY, OUR

22:00 GOVERNMENT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO

22:02 HELP HELP THEM.

22:03 WE HAVE TO BE PROACTIVE AND

22:04 READY.

22:06 UM, OBVIOUSLY PRIOR TO REPORT

22:08 AS FAR AS COORDINATION, YOU

22:10 KNOW, WHEN A FAMILY IS

22:11 EXPERIENCING HOUSING STABILITY

22:12 THE WORST THING WE CAN DO IS

22:14 HAND THEM A LIST OF AGENCIES

22:15 AND TELL THEM TO START MAKING

22:17 CALLS.

22:18 IT JUST NEVER WORKS THAT WAY.

22:19 THAT IS NOT SUPPORT.

22:21 UH, OUR RESPONSIBILITY IS TO

22:22 HELP CONNECT THOSE DOTS WITH

22:25 NPS.

22:25 WE HAVE THE HOMELESS EDUCATION

22:27 RESOURCE NETWORK AND THE

22:28 ACRONYM IS HAHN.

22:29 UH, MANY OF OUR PARTNERS ARE IN

22:31 THAT NETWORK.

22:32 IT HELPS US CREATE THE

22:33 INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS THE

22:34 DISTRICT UH, HOME IT PROVIDES

22:36 PREVENTION, INTERVENTION, CASE

22:38 MANAGEMENT RESOURCES, SCHOOL

22:39 BASED HOMELESS LIAISONS,

22:42 TRANSPORTATION COORDINATION,

22:44 BASIC NEEDS SUPPORT AND

22:45 CONNECTIONS TO COMMUNITY

22:46 PARTNERS AND ONE OF THE MOST

22:48 IMPORTANT PARTS OF THE SYSTEM

22:50 IN OUR SCHOOL BASED

22:51 HOMELESSNESS IS OUR HOMESCHOOL

22:52 BASED HOMELESS LIAISONS.

22:54 THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW

22:55 THE CHILDREN AND I THINK ONE

22:57 THING IS THAT THERE IS TENDS TO

22:59 BE ABSENT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT

23:00 YOUNG PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO

23:02 DRIVE THE RELATIONSHIP UH, YOU

23:03 KNOW, THEY KNOW FAMILIES AND

23:04 THEY KNOW PEOPLE WHO ARE

23:06 EXPERIENCING SUDDEN CHANGES AND

23:08 WITH SUDDEN SUDDEN CHANGES.

23:09 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO

23:11 NEED TO CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT

23:12 AS WE STRATEGIZE IS EARLY

23:13 WARNING INDICATORS AND THAT'S

23:16 ON THE PREVENTION SIDE LIKE HOW

23:18 DO WE KNOW?

23:18 AND SOMETIMES WE KNOW BY

23:20 CREATING INCREASED TOUCHPOINTS

23:22 .

23:23 THAT'S WHY THE PROGRAM THE

23:24 PROGRAMMATIC SIDE OF THE WORK

23:25 WE DO THE OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL

23:27 TIME, THE BEFORE SCHOOL TIME,

23:28 THE WEEKEND TIME YOU ARE ABLE

23:30 TO SEE CERTAIN TRAITS THAT ARE

23:33 OFTEN AFFILIATED WITH UM

23:35 FAMILIES WHO ARE EXPERIENCING

23:36 HOMELESSNESS ABILITY AND OUR

23:37 EXPECTATION IS NOT THAT A

23:38 PARENT COMES TO SCHOOL CARRYING

23:40 PAPERWORK, UH, PROVING THAT

23:41 THEY'RE IN CRISIS.

23:42 UH, WE WANT TO BE AS LOW

23:44 BARRIER IN THIS WORK AS

23:45 POSSIBLE IF A SCHOOL LEADER OR

23:48 A SOCIAL WORKER, A FAMILY

23:49 LIAISON OR ANOTHER TRUSTED

23:51 STAFF MEMBER LEARNS THAT A

23:52 FAMILY IS STRUGGLING, THERE'S A

23:55 PATHWAY TO GET THAT INFORMATION

23:56 TO THE HER NETWORK.

23:57 UH, SO SO WE COULD BEGIN

23:59 CONNECTING TO FAMILY SUPPORT

24:00 THE REFERRAL SYSTEM.

24:02 IT ALLOWS FOR IDENTIFICATION TO

24:04 HAPPEN AFTER THE ENROLLMENT

24:06 BECAUSE WE KNOW HOMELESSNESS

24:07 DOES NOT ONLY HAPPEN ON THE

24:10 FIRST DAY A CHILD REGISTERS TO

24:11 SCHOOL AND I THINK THAT PIECE

24:13 MATTERS AND I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT

24:14 THAT A PARENT COULD HAVE STABLE

24:17 HOUSING IN SEPTEMBER AND BE

24:18 FACING EVICTION IN FEBRUARY.

24:20 IT'S LITERALLY THAT CRITICAL UH

24:22 FAMILY CIRCUMSTANCES COULD

24:23 CHANGE OVERNIGHT.

24:25 I THINK ONE OF THE POINTS I

24:26 WANT TO CONTINUE TO EMPHASIZE

24:28 IS WE HAVE MULTIPLE LINES

24:29 OF COMMUNICATION BECAUSE

24:31 FAMILIES DESERVE IT, RIGHT?

24:33 WE HAVE OUR OUR OUR

24:35 AFOREMENTIONED SCHOOL, OUR

24:36 HOMELESS LIAISON, OUR SOCIAL

24:38 WORKERS, THE NETWORK, OUR

24:40 STUDENT SUPPORT HOTLINE,

24:41 WELCOME SERVICES,

24:43 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT,

24:44 FAMILIES, UH, OUR COMMUNITY

24:46 PROGRAMS, OUR FOOD ACCESS

24:48 EVENTS AND I ACTUALLY BELIEVE

24:49 THAT IS A STRENGTH BECAUSE

24:51 FAMILIES SHOULD HAVE MULTIPLE

24:52 DOORS IN THE SAME SYSTEM

24:54 OF SUPPORT, MULTIPLE AVENUES

24:55 FOR SUCCESS.

24:56 OUR FAMILIES DESERVE TREMENDOUS

24:58 CREDIT.

24:59 UH, AND I WANT TO BE

25:00 INTENTIONAL ABOUT SAYING THAT

25:02 PUBLICLY.

25:02 UM, THERE'S A LOT OF STRUGGLE

25:04 OUT THERE AND THEY'RE

25:05 PERSEVERING IN THAT WAY AND

25:06 THEY DESERVE TO BE HONORED WITH

25:08 THE RESPECT OF OF HAVING THIS

25:10 THIS SORT OF STRATEGIC WORK

25:12 TODAY FAMILY IT HAS BEEN A

25:15 TREMENDOUS PARTNER TO THE

25:16 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS THROUGH

25:16 OUR PARTNERSHIP, STAFF IDENTIFY

25:19 FAMILIES WHO ARE AT RISK

25:21 OF HOMELESSNESS OR ALREADY

25:23 EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS

25:25 CONNECTING THEM WITH FAMILY AID

25:26 FAMILY AID HELPS FAMILIES

25:28 NAVIGATE HOUSING STABILITY,

25:29 STABILIZATION, CASE MANAGEMENT

25:31 AND IMMEDIATE NEEDS.

25:33 SINCE THE EARLY HOMELESSNESS

25:34 THE CHIP PREVENTION PROGRAM

25:37 START AT FAMILY AID AND THIS

25:38 PARTNERSHIP HAS SERVED 3000

25:40 FAMILIES MORE THAN 10,000

25:42 CHILDREN AND PARENTS FOR MORE

25:44 THAN 100 SCHOOLS.

25:46 MORE THAN 1300 FAMILIES HAVE

25:48 SECURED NEW PERMANENT HOUSING

25:50 WITH ASSISTANCE FROM FAMILY AID

25:51 AND HOUSING PARTNERS.

25:53 I DON'T WANT TO STEAL THEIR

25:53 THUNDER.

25:54 THEY'LL BE UP HERE SOON.

25:55 THESE ARE NOT ABSTRACT NUMBERS

25:57 THAT THAT IS MORE THAN 1300

25:59 FAMILIES WHO HAVE A DIFFERENT

26:00 STORY TO TELL TODAY.

26:04 SOME OF THESE SUPPORTS MAY

26:05 INCLUDE SOME FINANCIAL

26:07 ASSISTANCE.

26:09 UM THE HOUSING SYSTEM IS

26:11 COMPLEX.

26:11 IF YOU TALK TO FAMILIES IT MAY

26:13 SIMPLY MEAN HAVING SOMEONE TO

26:16 ANSWER THE PHONE WHEN A FAMILY

26:17 IS REALLY SCARED.

26:18 THE SAME IS TRUE FOR GREATER

26:19 BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES THE

26:21 MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING, THE

26:23 BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY PART

26:25 UH BOSTON COLLEGE, THE UNITED

26:26 WAY, OUR STATE PARTNERS, OUR

26:28 SHELTER PROVIDERS AND OUR

26:29 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT MOST

26:31 IMPORTANTLY THE PEOPLE WORKING

26:32 DIRECTLY INSIDE OUR SCHOOLS.

26:34 IN THIS NETWORK WE FOCUS ON

26:37 PREVENTION AS OUR SECOND AS OUR

26:39 SECOND STRATEGY.

26:40 THE BEST TIME TO RESPOND TO

26:42 HOMELESSNESS IS BEFORE THE

26:43 FAMILIES BECOME HOMELESS.

26:45 AND THIS IS AN AREA I THINK

26:48 THAT WE'VE EVOLVED

26:49 SIGNIFICANTLY.

26:50 UM I DO NOT WANT US TO SORT

26:53 OF THINK ABOUT RESPONDING TO

26:54 THE CHILD, UM WHEN THEY BECOME

26:56 HOMELESS.

26:57 I THINK THE PREVENTION WORK IS

26:59 CRITICAL.

26:59 I WANT US INCREASINGLY MEASURED

27:01 BY WHETHER WE CAN INTERVENE

27:02 BEFORE IT HAPPENS.

27:03 THIS IS WHY IT HAS BEEN SO

27:06 IMPORTANT TO US.

27:07 OBVIOUSLY THE UH THAT WAS

27:09 MENTIONED EARLY THE BOSTON

27:10 COLLEGE RESEARCH FOUND IMPROVE

27:11 HOUSING STABILITY AND PARENT

27:12 WELL-BEING AMONG PARTICIPATING

27:15 FAMILIES ALONG WITH REDUCED

27:16 CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM AND

27:18 IMPROVED OVERALL ATTENDANCE.

27:19 FOR ME THAT'S CONNECTING THE

27:21 DOTS STABILIZING THE FAMILY

27:23 OF STUDENTS BECOME MORE STABLE

27:24 .

27:24 ATTENDANCE IMPROVES.

27:25 UH, WE WE HAVE TO FIND FAMILIES

27:28 EARLIER.

27:29 UM, THIS IS WHERE I THINK THE

27:31 SCHOOLS HAVE A UNIQUE ROLE.

27:32 A FAMILY MAY NOT JUST WALK INTO

27:34 THE CITY HALL AND SAY, HEY, I'M

27:36 THREE WEEKS AWAY FROM LOSING MY

27:37 APARTMENT.

27:37 IT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN THAT

27:38 WAY.

27:39 UH, THEY MAY MENTION THAT THEIR

27:40 RENT HAS INCREASED.

27:41 THEY MIGHT SAY THAT THEY'RE

27:42 STAYING WITH A RELATIVE FOR A

27:43 LITTLE WHILE GOING BACK TO THE

27:44 EARLY WARNING INDICATORS, UH, A

27:47 CHILD MAY TELL A SOCIAL WORKER

27:48 HEY, WE HAD TO MOVE.

27:49 YOU KNOW, THOSE BELLS

27:51 IMMEDIATELY START RINGING.

27:53 UH, YOU KNOW, ONE EXAMPLE THAT

27:55 WE HAD WE HAVE IN OUR, UM,

27:57 DISTRICT IS OUR COMMUNITY EATS

27:58 FOOD ACCESS PROGRAMING WHICH IS

28:00 ATTACHED TO MANY OF OUR

28:01 PROGRAMS.

28:02 UM, SUCCEED BOSTON IS GOING TO

28:03 HAVE A FOOD ACCESS NETWORK AS

28:06 WELL AS OUR, UH SOME OF OUR

28:07 PROGRAMS ON SATURDAY AND

28:08 SUNDAYS.

28:09 A FAMILY MIGHT INITIALLY COME

28:10 IN BECAUSE THEY NEED GROCERIES

28:11 AND THEY END UP IN A WELCOMING

28:14 SPACE WHERE THEY MEET PEOPLE,

28:16 THEY BUILD TRUST AND THEN THEY

28:17 SHARE AND THEY SELF-IDENTIFY

28:19 AND THEN WE GET THEM IN THE

28:21 PROCESS.

28:21 YOU KNOW, I ACTUALLY WE ALSO

28:24 HAVE ACCESS TO COUNCILOR.

28:25 OUR ACCESS TO

28:26 COUNCILOR PARTNERSHIP IS

28:27 ANOTHER EXAMPLE UH TRY TO MOVE

28:29 UPSTREAM THIS PARTNERSHIP AND

28:31 CLOSE FAMILY AID GREATER BOSTON

28:32 LEGAL SERVICES AND THE MAYOR'S

28:33 OFFICE OF HOUSING AS OF EARLY

28:37 SEPTEMBER 2026, THIS INITIATIVE

28:38 SCREENED 248 HOUSEHOLDS,

28:40 GENERATED 225 HIP REFERRALS.

28:42 THEY'RE HERE IN THE BUILDING.

28:44 THEY COULD SHARE THAT DATA

28:45 THEMSELVES ON THE STREET UNDER

28:46 IDA.

28:47 UH, THAT TELLS ME OUR SCHOOLS

28:48 ARE INCREASINGLY UNDERSTANDING

28:49 ,UM, THAT THERE'S A PATH TO

28:51 FOR UM FOR OUR FAMILIES TO TO

28:52 GET THE SUPPORT THEY NEED.

28:54 BUT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

28:56 FUNDING, I ALSO WANT TO BE

28:57 TRANSPARENT, UH, SOME OF THESE

28:59 RESOURCES THAT PREVIOUSLY WERE

29:01 SUPPORTED UM, IN THIS WORK CAME

29:02 THROUGH ESSER AND OTHER GRANT

29:04 FUNDING.

29:05 THESE RESOURCES HAVE SUNSET UM

29:07 BUT THE NEED DENY THE NEEDS

29:09 STILL EXIST ON THIS YEAR WE USE

29:11 THE EARMARK FUNDING TO CONTINUE

29:13 SUPPORTING PORTIONS OF THE

29:14 WORK.

29:14 BUT ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS WE

29:15 NEED TO CONTINUE HAVING IS THE

29:17 SUSTAINABILITY.

29:18 HOMELESSNESS IS NOT TEMPORARY.

29:20 HOUSING INSTABILITY IS NOT

29:22 TEMPORARY AND WE HAVE TO HAVE A

29:24 CLEAR MESSAGE THAT OUR

29:26 COMMITMENT HAS TO MATCH THAT

29:27 THAT ENERGY AND THEN FINALLY

29:29 RESPONSE WHEN A FAMILY IS

29:31 ALREADY IN CRISIS THE SPEED

29:32 MATTERS WHEN YOU SEND A

29:34 REFERRAL YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY IN

29:35 A POLITICAL SCHEME YOU HAVE TO

29:37 WAIT FOR SOMEBODY TO PROCESS

29:38 SOMETHING.

29:40 UM I I THINK THE VALUE OF OF US

29:42 HAVING OUR PARTNERSHIPS IS THAT

29:43 FOLKS ARE RESPONDING QUICKER.

29:45 FOLKS ARE UM YOU KNOW, OUR

29:46 PHONE CALL AWAY AND FAMILIES

29:48 ARE FEELING THAT SUPPORT RIGHT

29:49 AWAY AND I THINK THERE'S

29:50 NOTHING GREATER THAT WARMS THE

29:51 HEART.

29:51 AND WHEN A FAMILY IS GRATEFUL

29:53 FOR THE WORK THAT YOU PUT IN.

29:56 I THINK OUR TRANSPORTATION

29:57 DEPARTMENT HAS WORKED ALONGSIDE

29:59 SIGNIFICANTLY, UH, WITH THE

30:01 HOMELESSNESS INFRASTRUCTURE TO

30:02 COORDINATE TRANSPORTATION FOR

30:03 STUDENTS WHO ARE UM FARTHEST

30:04 AWAY FROM OPPORTUNITY AND OR

30:06 EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS WHO

30:07 DO NOT LIVE IN BOSTON.

30:09 THE HER NETWORK IN THE IN OUR

30:11 CURRENT OVERVIEW, UH WE HAVE TO

30:13 RECOGNIZE THAT OUR RESPONSE HAS

30:16 TO BE BIGGER THAN HOUSING.

30:17 UH, ONE THING I WANT THE

30:19 COUNCILORS TO UNDERSTAND IS

30:20 THAT THE NEEDS DO NOT STOP ONCE

30:22 WE IDENTIFY WHERE STUDENT IS

30:23 SLEEPING AND WE HAVE TO BE MORE

30:26 INTENTIONAL ABOUT HOW WE

30:27 SUPPORT THEM.

30:29 SO WHERE DO I WANT US TO GO

30:30 NEXT?

30:31 UH, RIGHT NOW WE ARE AND WE TRY

30:34 TO BE INNOVATIVE AS I MENTIONED

30:35 THE COUNCIL WE'VE EARLIER UM WE

30:38 ARE WORKING TOWARDS BUILDING A

30:40 COLLEGE RESIDENTIAL CONCEPT.

30:42 I WANT US TO I WANT TO

30:44 CHALLENGE EVERYBODY TO THINK

30:45 DIFFERENTLY ABOUT THIS

30:46 APPROACH.

30:46 UH, BECAUSE REALITY IS SOME

30:49 YOUNG PEOPLE ESPECIALLY OLDER

30:51 ADOLESCENTS DO NOT FIT NEATLY

30:53 INTO THE SYSTEMS THAT CURRENTLY

30:54 EXIST.

30:55 WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPLORING THE

30:56 IDEA OF INVOLVING A LOCAL

30:58 COLLEGE THAT HAS VACANT

30:59 RESIDENTIAL CAPACITY.

31:00 THAT CONCEPT WILL BE DESIGNED

31:02 AROUND ELIGIBLE STUDENTS

31:04 APPROXIMATELY BETWEEN 16 TO 19

31:06 YEARS OLD, POTENTIALLY

31:07 INCLUDING YOUNG PEOPLE INVOLVED

31:09 WITH FOSTER CARE OR

31:10 EXPERIENCING SIGNIFICANT

31:11 HOUSING INSTABILITY.

31:13 IMAGINE A YOUNG PERSON BEING

31:14 ABLE TO LIVE SAFELY ON CAMPUS,

31:16 RECEIVE THREE MEALS A DAY,

31:18 PARTICIPATE IN AN EARLY COLLEGE

31:20 EXPERIENCE, REMAIN ROLE AND

31:22 SUPPORTED ACADEMICALLY AND HAVE

31:24 A HAVING CONSISTENT ADULTS

31:25 AROUND THEM AND BEGIN SEEING

31:27 THEMSELVES AS A YOUNG PERSON

31:29 EXPERIENCING UH NOT AS A YOUNG

31:30 PERSON EXPERIENCING

31:31 HOMELESSNESS BUT THAT THEY ARE

31:33 NOW A COLLEGE STUDENT.

31:35 WE OBVIOUSLY WOULD NEED TO STAY

31:36 IN THE CITY AT THE TABLE.

31:37 WE WOULD NEED SOME FUNDING.

31:39 WE WOULD WE WOULD NEED FLAHERTY

31:40 AROUND ELIGIBILITY SUPERVISION,

31:43 CHILD WELFARE, SAFETY

31:44 PROGRAMING A LONG TERM

31:45 SUSTAINABILITY.

31:46 BUT WE ARE THINKING ABOUT IT.

31:47 WE ARE INNOVATING AROUND IT, WE

31:48 IDEATING AROUND IT.

31:50 I'M NOT PRESENTING THIS AS A

31:52 FINISHED PROGRAM.

31:53 I'M PRESENTING THIS BECAUSE

31:54 THIS PROBLEM IS TOO SERIOUS FOR

31:56 US TO RECYCLE THE SAME

31:57 SOLUTIONS.

31:59 AND I AM GOING TO UM I, I HAVE

32:03 A LARGE CLOSING STATEMENT BUT I

32:04 WILL DEFER TO MY COLLEAGUE

32:06 DALE.

32:13 THAT YOU DON'T.

32:16 YEAH.

32:17 UH YES.

32:18 WHOEVER'S BACK THERE WILL

32:19 CONTROL.

32:19 THE MIC.

32:19 RIGHT?

32:20 RIGHT.

32:20 UM.

32:21 WELL THANK YOU.

32:22 UM, TO MY CO-PANELISTS AND

32:24 THANK YOU, UH, TO THE MEMBERS

32:26 OF THIS COMMITTEE AND THE

32:27 COUNSELORS THAT ARE THAT ARE

32:28 HERE TODAY, UH, TO GIVE ME THE

32:30 OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY ON

32:32 STRATEGIES TO PREVENT

32:33 HOMELESSNESS AMONGST BOSTON

32:34 PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS.

32:36 MY NAME IS DANIEL JOHNSON.

32:37 I'M THE DIRECTOR FOR THE

32:38 MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING

32:39 STABILITY.

32:40 UH, MANY OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR,

32:42 BUT FOR THE PUBLIC OHSU IS A

32:44 SMALL UH, BUT MISSION DRIVEN

32:46 OFFICE.

32:46 OUR JOB IS TO KEEP BOSTON

32:48 HOUSEHOLDS STABLY HOUSED

32:49 CONNECTING FAMILIES TO

32:51 EMERGENCY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

32:53 ,LEGAL SUPPORT AND HOUSING

32:54 SEARCH HELP BEFORE A HOUSING

32:56 CRISIS BECOMES A HOUSING LOSS

32:58 AND HELP THEM MAINTAIN OR FIND

33:00 A PATH BACK TO STABLE HOUSING

33:01 WHEN IT DOES, UH WE ALREADY SEE

33:03 EVERY DAY SOME OF THE POINTS

33:05 THAT MY CO-PANELISTS MADE AND

33:06 HOW CLOSELY HOUSING AND

33:08 STABILITY AND SCHOOL STABILITY

33:09 TRACK TOGETHER OVER THE PAST

33:11 TWO FISCAL YEARS HAS SUPPORTED

33:15 2292 HOUSEHOLDS WITH CHILDREN

33:16 UNDER 21 AND WHERE WE'RE ABLE

33:18 TO CAPTURE AT 1321 OF THOSE

33:21 HOUSEHOLDS WERE FLAGGED AS

33:22 HAVING UH SOME SORT

33:24 OF CONNECTION.

33:25 UH AND THAT CONNECTION UH ISN'T

33:27 JUST SOMETHING WE OBSERVE

33:29 ANECDOTALLY RESEARCH AS YOU

33:30 MENTIONED COUNCILOR WEBER, UH,

33:31 FROM BOSTON COLLEGE'S SCHOOL

33:33 OF SOCIAL WORK AND UNITED WAY,

33:34 UH, STUDYING THE FAMILY AID UH

33:37 SCHOOL HOUSING PARTNERSHIP

33:38 FOUND THAT AS PARTICIPATING

33:40 FAMILIES HOUSING STABILIZED UH

33:43 PARENTS STRESS AND ANXIETY WENT

33:45 DOWN AND CHILDREN'S SCHOOL

33:46 ATTENDANCE IMPROVED AND THAT

33:47 RESEARCH DIRECTLY HELPED INFORM

33:49 THE GROWTH OF PROGRAMS LIKE OUR

33:50 OWN ACCESS TO

33:51 COUNCILOR PROGRAM.

33:52 SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS

33:53 IMPORTANT TOPIC TO THE

33:54 COMMUNITY.

33:54 HAPPY TO CONTINUE TO TALK AND

33:56 ANSWER QUESTIONS ON HOW WE CAN

33:58 THINK ABOUT DIFFERENT

33:59 STRATEGIES THAT ARE DIFFERENT

34:00 THAN WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING IN

34:01 THE PAST.

34:02 THANK YOU.

34:03 UM, AND AGAIN THANK YOU BOTH

34:05 FOR YOUR WORK.

34:06 UM, FIRST I WANT TO JUST START

34:08 OFF WITH COUNCIL ME UH LETTER

34:11 UM AND MY PRAYERS AND THOUGHTS

34:13 ARE WITH COUNCILMEMBER HERE IN

34:14 THE MEDIA FAMILY UH, DURING

34:16 THIS TIME UH DEAR VICE CHAIR

34:18 WORRELL AND WRITING INFORM YOU

34:19 OF MY ABSENT DURING TODAY'S 2

34:21 P.M. HEARING ON THE STRATEGIES

34:22 TO PREVENT STUDENT HOMELESSNESS

34:23 IN PUBLIC BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

34:25 DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES

34:28 MY STAFF WILL BE LISTENING IN

34:29 OUR REVIEW UPON MY RETURN, I'D

34:31 LIKE TO PLEASE SUBMIT THE

34:32 FOLLOWING QUESTIONS FOR TODAY'S

34:33 HEARINGS.

34:34 AND AFTER THEY BEAT PLEASE BE

34:35 READ INTO THE RECORD IF ANY

34:37 QUESTION IS NOT ANSWERED AT THE

34:38 HEARING I REQUEST THAT THE

34:39 ADMINISTRATION PLEASE RESPOND

34:41 IN WRITING FOLLOWING THE

34:41 HEARING BELOW THE QUESTIONS FOR

34:43 THE.

34:43 RECORD UM IT GOES FOR QUESTIONS

34:48 IS THE SCHOOL BASED HOMELESS

34:50 LIAISON LIST ON THE WEBSITE UP

34:53 TO DATE AND WHAT IS THE

34:54 DISTRICT DOING TO ENSURE

34:55 FAMILIES ARE AWARE OF THIS

34:57 RESOURCE?

34:58 QUESTION TWO IS HOW IS THE

34:59 DISTRICT WORKING WITH HOUSING

35:00 STABILITY AND COMMUNITY

35:02 ORGANIZATIONS TO ENSURE THAT

35:03 STUDENTS REMAIN HOUSED IN OUR

35:05 CITY?

35:05 QUESTION THREE CAN YOU EXPLAIN

35:07 WHAT IN DISTRICT ACADEMIC

35:08 SUPPORT ARE AVAILABLE FOR ON

35:11 HOW STUDENTS?

35:12 AND THEN THE LAST QUESTION IS

35:13 IS THE DISTRICT PART OF THE

35:14 TEAM WORKING ON THE ANTI

35:15 DISPLACEMENT PLAN?

35:17 IF SO HOW HAS THE PLAN DIRECTLY

35:19 IMPACTED STUDENTS AND FAMILY?

35:21 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO

35:22 THIS MATTER.

35:23 SINCERELY, JULIE MEJIA BOSTON

35:25 CITY COUNCILOR AT LARGE I'LL

35:27 GIVE YOU OPPORTUNITY TO UH,

35:29 ANSWER ANY OF THOSE FOUR

35:31 QUESTIONS OR SUBMIT THAT.

35:32 YOU GO ONE BY ONE.

35:34 THAT'S FOUR QUESTIONS IN A ROW.

35:36 YEAH.

35:37 SO THE FIRST QUESTION IS THE

35:38 SCHOOL BASED HOMELESS LIAISON

35:39 LIST ON THE WEBSITE UP TO DATE

35:41 AND WHAT IS THE DISTRICT DOING

35:43 TO ENSURE FAMILIES ARE AWARE

35:44 OF THIS RESOURCE?

35:45 TO MY KNOWLEDGE IT IS UP TO

35:47 DATE.

35:47 UH YOU KNOW WE USE PARENTS

35:49 SQUARE AS A CRITICAL.

35:51 UM.

35:52 ,VEHICLE FOR US TO COMMUNICATE

35:53 WITH OUR FAMILIES.

35:55 UH, WE USE OUR FAMILY LIAISON

35:57 UH, WE USE OUR HOMELESS LIAISON

35:59 AS MANY OF THEM DOUBLE AS

36:00 FAMILY LIAISONS.

36:02 SO THE MESSAGING IS CLEAR AND

36:03 OBVIOUSLY COULD IT BE BETTER?

36:04 UM, ABSOLUTELY.

36:05 EVERYONE HERE IS WORKING TO

36:07 WE'RE HERE FOR CONTINUOUS

36:08 IMPROVEMENT BUT WE ARE THERE

36:11 ARE HOMELESS LIAISONS ARE

36:12 CRITICAL TO THE WORK BECAUSE

36:13 THEY HAVE THE RELATIONSHIPS

36:15 THEY ARE TO WHERE THEY ARE

36:17 CREDIBLE MESSENGERS IN THIS

36:18 PIECE UM.

36:20 WE IT'S.

36:21 YOU KNOW, YOU VERY VERY RARELY

36:22 YOU RUN INTO SOMEONE THAT

36:24 COUNCIL THAT WE WERE UM RAN

36:25 INTO THAT THEY WILL JUST TRUST

36:27 IN THAT WAY YOU HAVE TO BUILD

36:28 STRONG RELATIONSHIPS AND OUR

36:30 HOMELESS LIAISONS ARE DOING

36:31 THAT.

36:31 ALL RIGHT.

36:32 AND THEN I WOULD JUST ASK

36:33 THIS LAST QUESTION THEN YOU CAN

36:34 SUBMIT THE REST IN WRITING.

36:35 HOW IS THE DISTRICT WORKING

36:37 WITH HOUSING STABILITY AND

36:38 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO

36:39 ENSURE THAT STUDENTS FROM MAIN

36:41 HOUSED IN OUR CITY?

36:43 WELL, I THINK THAT'S

36:44 REPRESENTED HERE TODAY AND

36:45 OTHER PANELISTS THAT WILL THAT

36:46 WILL UM JOIN AFTER WE UH AFTER

36:50 OUR TIME IS UP UH WE ARE UH WE

36:52 HAVE HAD SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT

36:54 OF MEETINGS UM THE THE NETWORK

36:56 HAS BEEN STRONG UH, I THINK IN

36:58 ALL OF MY OTHER AREAS IN OTHER

37:00 DEPARTMENTS, UH, THAT WE WORK

37:01 WITH UH THIS IS THE STRONGEST

37:04 COORDINATED EFFORT TO GET

37:05 SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES AND THAT

37:07 SAYS A LOT ABOUT OUR PARTNERS.

37:08 IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT ACCESS TO

37:10 COUNCILOR.

37:10 IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT THE LEGAL

37:12 SERVICES.

37:12 IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT FAMILY,

37:13 SAYS A LOT ABOUT THE UNITED

37:15 WAY, SAYS A LOT ABOUT THE CITY

37:16 OF BOSTON.

37:17 UH, BUT ONCE AGAIN, UH WE'RE

37:19 HERE FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

37:20 OF STRATEGY AND WE'RE GOING TO

37:22 WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO

37:23 THAT.

37:23 BUT I.

37:23 THINK THERE'S STRONG MOMENTUM

37:24 AND ADVOCACY UM, IN IN IN OUR.

37:29 UM IN OUR IN OUR ECOSYSTEM

37:30 RIGHT NOW.

37:31 THANK YOU.

37:32 AND I WILL GO TO MY

37:33 COUNCIL COLLEAGUES UH, STARTING

37:34 WITH THE LEAD SPONSOR UH,

37:36 COUNCILOR WEBER.

37:37 THE FLOOR IS YOURS.

37:38 SURE.

37:39 UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

37:40 UH, TO THE PANELISTS AND REALLY

37:43 THANK YOU FOR.

37:44 ALL YOUR WORK.

37:45 UH, I JUST YOU KNOW, IF WE

37:46 LOOK.

37:47 AT THE THE.

37:48 THE BC COLLEGE OF.

37:49 SOCIAL WORK, UH, WHETHER.

37:50 UH, THERE THERE.

37:52 A REPORT.

37:53 IT'S GOT LIKE NINE KEY

37:54 FINDINGS, YOU KNOW, AND THE.

37:56 THE FIRST UH THE.

37:57 FIRST FIVE ARE BASICALLY.

37:58 LIKE FAMILIES WHO PARTICIPATE

38:00 IN THE REHAB PROGRAM.

38:01 I THINK AS DANIELLE SAID, YOU

38:03 KNOW, THEY HAVE THEY, UH.

38:04 HAVE IMPROVED HOUSING STABILITY

38:06 AND ACCESS TO HIGHER QUALITY

38:07 HOUSING.

38:08 UH, THEY HAVE UH HIGHER LEVELS

38:11 OF PARENT WELL-BEING.

38:12 THEY'VE GOT.

38:12 UM, BETTER.

38:14 CHILD WELL-BEING, REDUCED

38:15 CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM.

38:16 I MEAN, THERE'S A GREAT THINGS

38:18 UH, AND THAT, YOU KNOW, UH,

38:20 FAMILIES STILL HAVE CHALLENGES

38:22 .

38:22 UH, THAT'S.

38:23 THAT'S FINE.

38:23 AND THEN UH, PARENTS REFERRED

38:26 TO THE HIT PROGRAM FOR.

38:27 HOUSING VOUCHERS, SHARED THAT

38:28 THEY APPRECIATE.

38:29 HOW THE PROGRAM STAFF.

38:31 UH, CONNECTED WITH THEM.

38:33 UH, THOUGH SOME DESIRE IMPROVED

38:35 COMMUNICATION.

38:36 UH, THEY FOUND THE PARENTS SAID

38:38 THAT THE HOUSING STABILIZATION

38:40 POSITIVELY IMPACTED THEIR

38:42 FAMILY.

38:42 THERE ARE SOME, UH, NAVIGATED

38:44 CHALLENGES USING.

38:44 HOUSING VOUCHERS THAT ARE

38:46 OUTSIDE THE CONTROL OF THE THE

38:47 PROGRAM.

38:48 AND THEN, UM, EIGHT AND NINE

38:51 UH, STAFF WERE ASKED QUESTIONS

38:55 UH, AND THEY ASKED HOMELESS

38:57 LIAISONS.

38:57 UH, WHAT THEY SAW.

38:58 AND THEY SAID NUMBER ONE, THEY

39:00 EXPERIENCED CHALLENGES IN

39:02 IDENTIFYING STUDENTS

39:03 EXPERIENCING.

39:03 HOUSING HARDSHIP.

39:05 AND NUMBER TWO, THE SYSTEM THAT

39:06 THEY THEY RECOMMENDED THAT, UH,

39:08 SYSTEMIC SCREENING MIGHT HELP

39:10 WITH THAT.

39:12 SO I WANTED TO FIRST THANK YOU

39:13 FOR THE GREAT WORK YOU'RE DOING

39:14 INTO THE POSITIVE IMPACTS.

39:16 I'M JUST GOING TO FOCUS

39:17 UNFORTUNATELY ON THE THE LAST

39:18 TWO PARTS OF WE'RE HAVING.

39:19 TROUBLE IDENTIFYING PEOPLE AND.

39:21 AND.

39:21 WHAT ARE WHAT ARE THE I GUESS

39:23 THE HOMELESS LIAISON SUGGESTED

39:24 SYSTEMATIC.

39:25 SCREENING I DON'T EVEN KNOW

39:26 WHAT THAT.

39:27 IS NECESSARILY BUT WHAT ARE WE

39:28 DOING TO IDENTIFY UH, PEOPLE.

39:31 WHEN I HEAR SYSTEM UM, THE

39:33 SYSTEMATIC SCREENING I THINK

39:35 THAT I THINK THAT'S POINTING

39:37 TOWARDS MY POINT AROUND EARLY

39:38 WARNING INDICATORS.

39:40 UH.

39:41 YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE A

39:42 CONVERSATION IF YOU ARE IN

39:43 SPACES AND WE CREATE MULTIPLE

39:45 TOUCHPOINTS TO HAVE

39:45 CONVERSATIONS WITH FAMILIES IN

39:46 THE ACADEMIC SPACE AND THE

39:48 ENVIRONMENTAL SPACE IN THE

39:49 PROGRAMMATIC SPACE, UH, AND

39:51 SOMEONE SAID, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE

39:53 COMES TO GRAB A BAG OF FOOD AND

39:54 YOU KNOW AND YOU RECOGNIZE THAT

39:58 THEY THEY NEED MORE THAN THAT,

39:59 RIGHT?

40:00 THAT IMMEDIATELY IS A

40:02 CONVERSATION THAT NEEDS TO BE

40:03 HAD.

40:03 THAT IMMEDIATELY IS THE

40:05 QUESTION THEN BECOMES LIKE HOW

40:06 MANY STUDENTS DO YOU HAVE IN

40:08 THE SYSTEM?

40:08 WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

40:10 UM WHAT WHAT HELP DO YOU NEED?

40:12 HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT?

40:13 HERE IS OUR NUMBER CALL US

40:15 IMMEDIATELY.

40:16 UM, OUR STUDENT SUPPORT

40:17 HOTLINE.

40:18 YOU COULD CALL THAT.

40:19 YOU COULD AND THEN IF IT.

40:21 TRACKS THROUGH THAT EARLY

40:23 WARNING INDICATOR UM, YOU CALL

40:26 THE SCHOOL AND WHETHER IT'S A

40:28 SUNDAY OR SATURDAY THE NEXT THE

40:29 MONDAY THE SCHOOL NEEDS TO THE

40:31 SCHOOL IS KNOW AND THEN THE

40:32 REFERRAL HAS TO BE IN PLACE AND

40:33 THEN WE ACTIVATE AND HOPEFULLY

40:37 YOU KNOW FOR THE MOST PART

40:38 THINGS UM HAVE BEEN VERY STRONG

40:40 THROUGH FAMILY AID AND AND SOME

40:42 OF OUR OTHER PARTNERS BUT I

40:43 THINK THE AWARENESS RIGHT

40:46 THROUGH ADVOCACY AND SORT

40:48 OF EARLY WARNING INDICATOR

40:49 THOSE SIGNS AND WHAT TRENDS ARE

40:52 AROUND ON FAMILIES WHO ARE

40:53 EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IS

40:54 CRITICAL.

40:55 UM.

40:56 KIDS SOMETIMES DON'T WANT TO

40:56 GO HOME, RIGHT?

40:58 NEED SOMETHING TO DO?

40:59 UH YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHY YOU

41:01 KNOW, IN THE IN THE SUMMER OR

41:03 SOME OF THE OTHER PROGRAMS THAT

41:04 FOLKS ARE COMMITTED TO THERE

41:06 THEY STAY AND WE TRY TO EXTEND

41:08 THE HOURS AS MUCH AS WE CAN

41:09 BECAUSE WE KNOW THEY'RE GOING

41:11 TO A SHELTER OR THEY OR THEY

41:13 NEED SOMETHING EXTRA.

41:15 SO I THINK UM, THIS A FAIR

41:17 POINT TO TO REALLY HAVE THE

41:19 SCREENING UH, BUT THE EARLY

41:20 WARNING ANY ONE OF THESE IS

41:22 CRITICAL AS.

41:22 ONE.

41:23 WHO'S ASKING THOSE.

41:24 QUESTIONS ABOUT.

41:25 YOU KNOW, THE SCREENING

41:26 QUESTIONS.

41:28 IN WHO IS ASKING WHO.

41:29 WHO'S DOING THE SCREENING

41:30 AND THIS IS IS.

41:31 THE HOMELESS.

41:32 LIAISONS AND THE HOMELESS

41:34 LIAISONS ARE IT HAPPENS

41:37 INHERENTLY OR NOT ORGANICALLY.

41:39 HOWEVER I THINK THE IMPROVEMENT

41:42 AREAS WILL BE AROUND A.

41:43 SELF-IDENTIFICATION TOOLS AND I

41:44 THINK I MET WITH SOME OF OUR

41:46 PARTNERS UM, THE OTHER DAY

41:47 TALKING ABOUT SOME OTHER STEPS

41:49 IN TERMS OF.

41:50 LIKE.

41:50 IDENTIFYING UM OR CREATING A

41:52 TOOL THAT HELPS FAMILIES

41:54 SELF-IDENTIFY WITHOUT FEELING

41:57 THE HUMILIATION UM OF NAMING

42:01 THAT THE HOMELESSNESS I THINK

42:03 DEFINING THAT UM AND THAT

42:06 ALLOWS US TO HAVE THE TRUE

42:08 CONVERSATIONS WITH FAMILIES AND

42:09 HONESTLY AS SOMEONE WHO HAS

42:11 CONVERSATIONS WITH FAMILIES

42:12 ABOUT HOMELESSNESS AND

42:13 HOMELESSNESS AND INSTABILITY.

42:15 A LOT OF FAMILIES DON'T EVEN

42:16 KNOW THAT THEY ARE.

42:17 UH.

42:18 ARE EXPERIENCING

42:19 HOMELESSNESS INSTABILITY.

42:21 SO THE THE RED FLAGS ARE THERE.

42:23 UM, BUT TO YOUR POINT THAT.

42:25 THE THEY THINK OKAY, LIKE I'VE

42:27 GOT.

42:27 THIS.

42:27 COVERED, YOU.

42:28 KNOW, I'M GOING TO MOVE.

42:29 IN WITH MY.

42:30 YOU KNOW, COUSINS.

42:30 YES SOMETHING FOR A COUPLE

42:32 WEEKS AND.

42:32 THEN I'LL GOT A HOTEL ROOM.

42:33 YES.

42:34 SO THEY YOU KNOW THEY HAVEN'T

42:36 QUITE ADMITTED.

42:36 THAT IS NOT STABILITY RIGHT.

42:38 YEAH I GUESS.

42:39 SO.

42:40 TO DOVETAIL WITH.

42:41 THE WITH ACCESS TO

42:43 COUNCILOR LIKE SO I, I DO.

42:45 A LITTLE YOU KNOW EVERY TIME

42:46 I'M IN A SCHOOL AND I MEET THE

42:48 FAMILY LIAISON I SAY.

42:50 OH HOW'S HAS ACCESS TO

42:51 COUNCILOR AND I THINK MORE

42:52 OFTEN THAN NOT THE ANSWER IS

42:54 WHAT'S THAT?

42:55 UH AND SO YOU KNOW.

42:56 I THINK.

42:57 A THE FAMILY LIAISONS MAY NOT

43:00 BE THEY MIGHT NOT UNDERSTAND

43:01 I'M USING THE WRONG WORDS.

43:03 BUT I DON'T THINK PARENTS KNOW

43:05 LIKE I JUST THOUGHT LIKE, YOU

43:06 KNOW, WE GET FLIERS, YOU KNOW,

43:08 MY KIDS IN THEIR.

43:09 BACKPACKS ALL THE TIME LIKE

43:10 EVEN JUST TO TELL EVERY PARENT

43:12 IN THE CITY IF YOU GET AN

43:13 EVICTION.

43:13 NOTICE.

43:14 CALL DANIELLE JOHNSON.

43:16 YEAH.

43:16 UH, BUT UH BUT UH, THAT UM

43:18 CALL, YOU KNOW, CALL US AND WE

43:20 WILL HELP I, I HAVEN'T QUITE

43:22 SEEN I YOU KNOW THE SORT

43:25 OF OUTREACH THAT AND YOU KNOW

43:26 OBVIOUSLY IT'S HELPED YOU KNOW

43:29 HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES.

43:30 CONNECT TO SERVICES AND YOU

43:31 KNOW.

43:32 IT'S 40 TO 50.

43:33 ACTUALLY LIKE AVOID EVICTION

43:35 I'M SURE WE HEAR FROM GIRLS

43:36 ABOUT THAT BUT.

43:38 UM YOU KNOW I FEEL LIKE WE

43:39 COULD.

43:39 HAVE SORRY.

43:40 JUST UH.

43:41 I GUESS YOU KNOW, I THINK.

43:43 I THINK YOU'RE SPEAKING

43:43 OF QUALITY CONTROL, RIGHT?

43:44 LIKE HOW HOW CAN WE IMPROVE THE

43:46 QUALITY OF HOW THOSE THOSE

43:48 PIECES ARE, UM, COMMUNICATED I

43:50 THINK TO THE EVERYONE HERE

43:53 BELIEVES THAT IT SHOULD BE IN

43:56 IT SHOULD BE.

43:56 THE ACCESS OF UM.

43:59 OF THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING

44:00 IDENTIFYING THAT.

44:01 LEVEL OF ABILITY TO CONTRIBUTE

44:03 TO THE CONDITIONS FOR THEM TO

44:04 BE SUCCESSFUL COME TO SCHOOL.

44:06 UM, YOU KNOW, UM DO

44:08 ACADEMICALLY WELL TO FEEL.

44:09 STABLE UM, THE WHOLE NINE UH I

44:11 THINK THAT UM TO YOUR POINT,

44:15 HAVING AN INCREASED LEVEL

44:18 OF COMMUNICATION UM, THAT IS

44:19 NOT JUST.

44:20 TRUSTED TO THE SCHOOLS.

44:22 UM, I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK AT,

44:23 YOU KNOW, FURTHER UTILIZING A

44:25 LOT OF OUR CBOS, OUR COMMUNITY

44:26 PARTNERS, UM, AND TO.

44:28 GETTING SPACES WHETHER IT'S OUR

44:30 FAITH-BASED COMMUNITY GET IN

44:31 SPACES WHERE RESOURCES ARE

44:33 ACCESSIBLE OR EVEN MORE

44:34 ACCESSIBLE.

44:35 UM, YOU KNOW.

44:36 THIS.

44:36 CONVERSATION IS ABOUT

44:37 CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT.

44:38 I THINK THAT'S THAT'S ONE THING

44:39 THAT WE HAVE STARTED SOME.

44:40 CONVERSATIONS ON.

44:42 HOWEVER, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE'RE

44:44 HERE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT.

44:45 THERE AND.

44:46 UM.

44:46 HOPEFULLY THIS WILL LEAD US

44:47 TOWARDS DOING THAT.

44:48 AND I WOULD.

44:49 I WOULD JUST ADD TO THAT UM,

44:51 RELATED TO SORT OF HOW DO WE

44:52 CONNECT HOUSEHOLDS TO THIS TYPE

44:54 OF RESOURCE WHEN WE WERE FIRST

44:57 UH, WORKING ON IMPLEMENTATION

44:58 OF ACCESS TO

44:59 COUNCILOR SPECIFICALLY UH AND

45:00 MEETING WITH THE HOMELESS

45:02 LIAISONS, IT WAS CLEAR THAT

45:03 THERE NEEDED TO BE UM, ONGOING

45:06 TRAINING IN TERMS OF WHAT TO

45:07 NOTICE TO QUIT.

45:08 I THINK THE LEGAL PROCESS IN

45:09 GENERAL CAN BE VERY CONVOLUTED

45:11 ,ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A

45:12 LAWYER SUCH AS YOURSELF

45:14 COUNCILOR WEBER MYSELF BUT I DO

45:16 THINK THERE IS THAT ADDED NEED

45:18 OF OKAY IT'S A NOTICE TO QUIT.

45:20 WE CAN EXPLAIN WHAT IT IS BUT

45:21 VISUALLY THEY LOOK DIFFERENT.

45:22 UH AND THEN ESPECIALLY AS THE

45:25 EVICTION PROCESS PROCEEDS AND

45:27 MOVES ON THERE CAN BE A SHAMING

45:29 OF I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW

45:30 THAT I'M INVOLVED IN HOUSING

45:31 COURT AND I'LL FIGURE IT OUT

45:33 WHEN I GET THERE BECAUSE THERE

45:34 WILL BE RESOURCES THAT ARE

45:35 AVAILABLE TO ME.

45:36 SO I THINK SOMETHING THAT WE'RE

45:37 WE'RE DEFINITELY TAKING BACK

45:39 WITH US AND WORKING ON

45:40 PROACTIVELY IS HOW DO WE CREATE

45:42 VISUALS SO THAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY

45:43 UNDERSTAND THE UM, EVICTION

45:45 PROCESS THAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY

45:47 GOING THROUGH WITHOUT IT BEING

45:48 OVERLY UH, LEGALLY.

45:50 SO UM, IT'S FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE

45:51 HEARD AND SOMETHING THAT WE'RE

45:53 THAT WE'RE.

45:53 WORKING.

45:54 ON AND I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT

45:55 REALLY QUICK.

45:55 TO MAKE.

45:56 A COMMENT.

45:56 BUT I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT REALLY

45:57 QUICK THAT IN MANY SCHOOLS

45:59 THERE'S NOT ONE.

46:01 THERE'S NOT JUST ONE HOME.

46:02 LIAISON THERE'S SOME SCHOOLS WE

46:04 HAVE FOUR AND THOSE FOLKS DON'T

46:06 JUST.

46:07 DOUBLE AS FAMILY LIAISON IT'S

46:08 A.

46:09 SCHOOL COUNSELORS UH.

46:11 YOU KNOW YOUR IT COULD BE YOUR

46:14 SOCIAL WORKER.

46:15 IT COULD BE YOUR FAMILY LIAISON

46:16 .

46:17 UM IT COULD BE YOUR DEAN IT.

46:19 COULD BE YOUR CFC.

46:21 SO THIS IS NOT ONE INDIVIDUAL.

46:23 IN A SCHOOL.

46:24 AND ALL THAT AND WHAT THEY ARE

46:26 DOING IS.

46:26 THEY'RE CONNECTING.

46:27 THE THEY'RE MANAGING AND

46:29 FACILITATING THE CONNECTIVE.

46:30 TISSUE FOR SUPPORT FOR THOSE

46:31 FOR THAT FOR THE FAMILY.

46:33 AND I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT

46:35 THAT.

46:35 THERE'S NOT JUST ONE PERSON

46:36 SITTING.

46:37 THERE MANAGING ALL.

46:38 OF THIS IS JUST NOT.

46:39 IT'S JUST NOT IT'S NOT GOING TO

46:41 HELP ANY FAMILY.

46:42 UM I THINK IT TRIGGERS THE RED

46:45 FLAG FOR US TO GET.

46:46 AN.

46:46 ALL IN APPROACH TO SUPPORT OUR

46:48 TO SUPPORT.

46:48 OUR FAMILIES.

46:50 OKAY.

46:50 YEAH.

46:51 THANK YOU.

46:51 I JUST JUST ONE COMMENT IS

46:53 ACCESS TO COUNCILOR AND

46:55 EVICTION.

46:56 YOU KNOW.

46:56 PREVENTION EVEN IF WE

46:58 UPSTREAM STOPPED.

46:59 100% OF.

47:00 THOSE THAT.

47:01 I.

47:01 THINK I.

47:02 I JUST FOR FOR DANIELLE IS

47:04 WHAT'S THE PERCENTAGE THAT ARE.

47:06 OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS NOT

47:07 AS A RESULT.

47:08 OF AN EVICTION IT'S BUT EVEN

47:09 IT'S MORE THAN HALF I I SAW IT

47:12 BUT UH.

47:13 UH I'M NOT SURE I UNDERSTAND.

47:14 PEOPLE WHO END UP IN OUR.

47:16 SHELTER SYSTEM.

47:17 OR THAT YOU KNOW THAT THEY

47:18 HAVEN'T NECESSARILY BEEN

47:19 EVICTED THROUGH.

47:20 A FORMAL PROCESS.

47:22 THEY'VE JUST.

47:23 RIGHT LEFT THEIR HOUSING RIGHT,

47:24 RIGHT.

47:25 UM, SO.

47:26 AGAIN, THE NEED TO LIKE.

47:28 YOU KNOW, HAVE.

47:29 A LOT OF DIFFERENT TOOLS

47:30 UPSTREAM.

47:31 IT'S NOT.

47:31 JUST ACCESS TO

47:32 COUNCILOR BECAUSE IT WOULD

47:33 BREAK A LOT OF.

47:33 PEOPLE RIGHT?

47:34 YEAH.

47:35 AND I'M HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT

47:36 SOME OF THE TOOLS THAT WE'RE

47:37 ACTIVELY WORKING ON OUTSIDE

47:38 OF ACCESS TO COUNCILOR.

47:40 UM UH, COUNCILOR PEPEN ISN'T

47:42 HERE TODAY, BUT WE BRIEFED HIM

47:43 ON THE EVICTION PREVENTION

47:44 ACTION PLAN WHICH WE CAN GET

47:46 INTO IT.

47:46 THAT INCLUDES SOME SORT

47:48 OF UPSTREAM EVICTION PREVENTION

47:49 MEASURES, WHETHER IT'S

47:51 ENGAGEMENT WITH LANDLORDS OR,

47:53 UH, BETTER TOOLS FOR TENANTS OR

47:55 A PLACE BASED STRATEGY.

47:56 SO HAPPY TO TALK MORE ABOUT

47:58 WHAT THE ACTION PLAN IS AND

48:00 WHAT ARE SOME INTERVENTIONS

48:01 THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING.

48:02 THANK YOU.

48:03 COUNCILOR UH,

48:05 COUNCIL BREADON THANK YOU.

48:07 UM.

48:10 I THINK I MAYBE PICK UP WHERE

48:12 YOU LEFT OFF THEN, UH, DANIELLE

48:13 AND JUST CONTINUED TO THINK

48:14 ABOUT EVICTION PREVENTION

48:16 BECAUSE UM, RIGHT.

48:19 ACCESS TO COUNCILOR IS A REALLY

48:21 IMPORTANT TOOL THAT WE HAVE AND

48:22 HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE ABLE TO

48:23 CONTINUE TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORT

48:25 IT AND KEEP IT GOING BECAUSE

48:27 IT'S IMPACTFUL.

48:28 BUT EVICTION PREVENTION LIKE

48:30 PEOPLE END UP UH, IN UNSTABLE

48:34 HOUSING FOR ALL SORTS

48:36 OF REASONS AND OTHER PARTICULAR

48:37 TRIGGERS AND UH, WHAT'S THE

48:39 BEST WAY UM, WHAT'S THE MOST

48:40 EFFECTIVE WAY THAT WE CAN TRY

48:42 AND PREVENT UM IF IT'LL PREVENT

48:44 EVICTIONS?

48:44 YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

48:46 UH, YES.

48:46 DIFFERENT TRIGGERS.

48:47 UH, THE ACTION PLAN THAT I WAS

48:49 MENTIONED IT'S BUILT OFF

48:50 OF OVER TEN YEARS OF EVICTION

48:52 DATA.

48:52 UH, SO WE LOOKED AT WHERE

48:54 EVICTIONS ARE HAPPENING IN THE

48:55 CITY.

48:56 WE LOOKED AT THE REASONS WHY

48:57 PEOPLE ARE BEING EVICTED.

48:58 WE LOOKED AT THE AMOUNT

48:59 OF MONEY THAT PEOPLE ARE BEING

49:00 EVICTED FOR, UH, AND FOUND THAT

49:02 NONPAYMENT IS THE NUMBER ONE

49:03 REASON WHY PEOPLE ARE GETTING

49:04 EVICTED.

49:05 UH, WE FOUND THAT EVICTIONS ARE

49:07 CONCENTRATED SO THERE ARE THREE

49:08 ZIP CODES UH, TWO IN DORCHESTER

49:10 AND ONE IN ROXBURY 02119 THAT

49:12 ARE MOST IMPACTED.

49:13 THEY ACCOUNT FOR OVER A THIRD

49:15 OF THE EVICTION ACTIVITY IN THE

49:17 CITY.

49:17 UH, AND WE ALSO FOUND THAT UH

49:19 MANY PEOPLE ARE BEING EVICTED

49:21 FOR MODEST AMOUNTS.

49:22 SOMETIMES LESS THAN $5,000,

49:24 SOMETIMES EVEN LESS THAN THAT.

49:25 UM, SO ALL OF THOSE PIECES

49:27 HELPED INFORM THE ACTION PLAN

49:30 OF OKAY, WE KNOW WHERE

49:31 EVICTIONS ARE HAPPENING.

49:32 WE KNOW FOR WHAT REASONS PEOPLE

49:34 ARE BEING EVICTED.

49:35 SO WHAT ARE SOME DIFFERENT

49:36 STRATEGIES THAT WE CAN THINK

49:38 ABOUT OUTSIDE OF THE NORMAL

49:39 STRATEGIES THAT WE KNOW

49:41 OF REFER THEM TO RAFT OR REFER

49:42 THEM TO THE TENANCY

49:44 PRESERVATION UH PROGRAM THAT'S

49:46 THAT'S BASED IN IN THE HOUSING

49:48 COURT.

49:48 UH AND WE ESTABLISHED THESE

49:50 THREE STRATEGIES THAT I

49:51 HIGHLIGHTED OF UH WHAT DOES IT

49:53 LOOK LIKE TO ACTUALLY HAVE A

49:55 TENANT RESOURCE THAT TENANTS

49:56 ACTUALLY CAN USE AND

49:57 UNDERSTAND?

49:57 SO IF THEIR SITUATION IS YOU

49:59 KNOW, I'M ONE PAYMENT AWAY AS

50:02 COUNCILOR COLLETTA ZAPATA

50:03 MENTIONED UM ONE PAYMENT AWAY

50:04 FROM THAT BEING ABLE TO AFFORD

50:05 RENT.

50:05 WHAT DOES A RESOURCE FOR THAT

50:07 PARTICULAR TENANT LOOK LIKE

50:09 COMPARED TO A TENANT WHO IS

50:11 BEHIND IN ARREARS IN THE

50:14 THOUSANDS THERE THEIR

50:15 INTERVENTION MAY LOOK DIFFERENT

50:16 THAN THAT PERSON THAT I

50:18 ORIGINALLY DESCRIBED.

50:19 UH, SIMILARLY FOR THE LANDLORDS

50:21 YOU CAN'T HAVE EVICTION

50:22 PREVENTION WITHOUT HAVING A

50:24 CONVERSATION WITH PROPERTY

50:25 MANAGEMENT WITH OWNERS BOTH BIG

50:27 AND SMALL.

50:28 SO WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO UH

50:30 ,ENGAGE WITH OWNERS OF A

50:32 LARGER PORTFOLIO?

50:32 THAT STRATEGY LOOKS DIFFERENT

50:34 COMPARED TO OUR SMALLER MOM AND

50:36 POP LANDLORDS AROUND.

50:37 DO YOU KNOW THE TOOL?

50:38 DO YOU KNOW ABOUT A PAYMENT

50:39 PLAN?

50:40 DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN CALL

50:41 THE OFFICE OF HOUSING STABILITY

50:42 FOR LANDLORD TENANT MEDIATION?

50:44 UM AND THEN THIS PLACE BASED

50:46 PIECE THAT I MENTIONED IF WE

50:47 KNOW WHERE EVICTIONS ARE

50:48 HAPPENING DOWN TO THE ZIP

50:50 CODE AND OFTENTIMES DOWN TO THE

50:51 BUILDING, HOW DO WE HAVE THOSE

50:53 CONVERSATIONS WITH OWNERS

50:55 AROUND WE KNOW THE ACTIVITY IS

50:56 HIGH HERE.

50:57 CAN WE UH, SATURATE THIS THIS

51:00 BUILDING WITH SOME RESOURCES

51:01 THAT ARE DIFFERENT THAN THE

51:02 OTHER RESOURCES THAT WE PROVIDE

51:03 TO THE REST OF THE CITY?

51:05 UM, AND THINK ABOUT SOME

51:06 UPSTREAM EVICTION PREVENTION,

51:07 UH, OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE A LOT

51:09 OF, YOU KNOW, ACCESS TO

51:11 COUNCILOR IS A GREAT PROGRAM

51:12 BUT IT'S MEANT TO BE DOWNSTREAM

51:13 ,RIGHT, BECAUSE YOU'RE ALREADY

51:14 IN HOUSING COURT.

51:15 SO THE ACTION PLAN THINKS ABOUT

51:16 WAYS TO TO ON THE OTHER

51:19 SPECTRUM OF UPSTREAM.

51:20 AND I LIKE THE IDEA OF WORKING

51:22 WITH LANDLORDS BECAUSE VERY

51:23 OFTEN THEY THEY WANT TO BE

51:26 HELPFUL.

51:27 YEP.

51:27 BUT THEY DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE

51:29 THE ACCESS TO THROUGH OUR

51:30 UNDERSTANDING OF THE TERMS THAT

51:32 ARE AVAILABLE EITHER.

51:33 YOU KNOW, THEY ALMOST YOU KNOW

51:36 THEY'RE NOT ALL THEY'RE NOT ALL

51:37 BAD.

51:38 OF COURSE.

51:38 YEAH.

51:39 SO IT'S IT'S.

51:39 IT'S IMPORTANT TO SORT OF LOOK

51:41 AT THAT.

51:41 AND I WILL JUST ADD BRIEFLY ON

51:43 THAT UH IN IN IMPLEMENT OR

51:45 SETTING UP THE ACTION PLAN WE

51:47 SURVEYED LANDLORDS AND HEARD

51:49 FROM THEM.

51:50 SO THAT'S PART OF UH WHAT'S IN

51:51 THE ACTION PLAN CURRENTLY WHICH

51:53 IS OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

51:54 SO THAT'S A PLUG.

51:55 UM, BUT A LOT OF LANDLORDS

51:56 MENTIONED JUST EXACTLY WHAT YOU

51:58 DESCRIBED WHERE HOUSING

51:59 PROVIDERS AT THE END OF THE DAY

52:01 A LOT OF US ARE AFFORDABLE

52:02 HOUSING PROVIDERS.

52:03 WE'RE NOT IN THE BUSINESS

52:04 OF EVICTING.

52:05 SO HOW CAN WE COME TO THE TABLE

52:06 TO HAVE A A BETTER CONVERSATION

52:08 SO THAT IT'S COHESIVE.

52:10 AND IN TERMS OF NAVIGATING LIKE

52:12 THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT LIKE RAFT

52:14 PROGRAM?

52:14 UH, I, I DON'T ALWAYS HEAR GOOD

52:16 THINGS ABOUT HOW EASY IT IS TO

52:18 NAVIGATE THIS OR HAVE YOU ANY

52:20 THOUGHTS ON HOW IT MIGHT BE

52:21 IMPROVED OR WHAT'S WHAT'S

52:23 WHAT'S NOT FOOD WE HAVE.

52:24 YEAH.

52:25 WHAT SORT OF OBSTACLES ARE IN

52:26 THE WAY IN THE IN THAT PROCESS.

52:28 YEAH DEFINITELY UH PART OF THE

52:30 ACTION PLAN INCLUDES BETTER UH

52:32 COORDINATION WITH FINANCIAL

52:33 ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS GIVEN THE

52:35 FACT THAT NONPAYMENT OF RENT IS

52:36 THE NUMBER ONE REASON OUR

52:38 RESIDENTS OF BOSTON ARE GETTING

52:39 EVICTED.

52:40 UH, AND IN THAT WE NEED TO TALK

52:42 TO ALL OF THE PROVIDERS

52:44 OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, WHICH

52:45 INCLUDES METRO HOUSING, WHICH

52:47 ADMINISTERS THE RAFT PROGRAM.

52:48 WE HAD A PRELIMINARY

52:50 CONVERSATION WITH THEM IN TERMS

52:51 OF WHAT WE'RE HEARING WHEN

52:52 PEOPLE CALL THE OFFICE

52:54 OF HOUSING STABILITY FOR

52:55 SUPPORT, UH, AND THEY'RE ON

52:56 BOARD AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT

52:58 OKAY, HOW DO WE MAKE THE SYSTEM

52:59 A LITTLE BIT BETTER?

53:00 UH, BUT ALSO OUR OUR NONPROFIT

53:02 PROVIDERS WHO PROVIDE FINANCIAL

53:03 ASSISTANCE AND THAT GOES TO UM

53:05 THE TENANT RESOURCE TOOL I WAS

53:07 DESCRIBING OF TENANTS MAY CALL

53:09 ROSIE'S PLACE.

53:09 THEY MAY CALL ANOTHER AGENCY

53:12 AND FIND OUT THEY DON'T HAVE

53:13 SUPPORT.

53:14 SO THEY'RE LIKE I GUESS THAT'S

53:15 THE END OF THE ROAD.

53:16 UM SO BRINGING ALL THOSE

53:18 PARTNERS TOGETHER TO BETTER

53:19 UNDERSTAND WHAT RESOURCES ARE

53:20 ACTUALLY AVAILABLE FOR WHOM

53:22 WHEN THEY SHOULD REACH OUT,

53:23 ETC. UNDERSTANDING UH, THE

53:25 ELIGIBILITY COMPONENT.

53:26 I THINK THE OTHER ISSUE THAT WE

53:28 HAVE ENCOUNTERED IS THAT WHEN

53:29 FAMILIES ARE YOU KNOW,

53:30 DEPENDING ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD

53:31 BUT ESPECIALLY IN ALLSTON,

53:33 BRIGHTON LIKE AS I SAID EARLIER

53:35 ,MY COMMENTS ARE COMPETING

53:36 WITH STUDENTS AND YOUNG

53:37 PROFESSIONALS WHO CAN AFFORD

53:39 TOGETHER AND THEY CAN AFFORD

53:41 $5,000 FOR IT FOR AN APARTMENT

53:43 AS A FAMILY KEPT.

53:44 RIGHT.

53:45 UM AND JUST THE SHEER

53:48 OF AVAILABILITY OF FAMILY

53:49 APPROPRIATE HOUSING IN CERTAIN

53:52 PARTS OF THE CITY.

53:53 UM, HAVE YOU ANY THOUGHTS ON

53:54 HOW WE MIGHT TACKLE THAT?

53:56 I KNOW WE SORT OF CHIP AWAY AT

53:57 IT IN TERMS OF GETTING MORE IDP

54:00 UNITS THAT ARE FAMILY SIZE

54:01 UNITS, BUT I THINK IT'S A NO

54:03 THAT'S A THAT'S LIKE EMPTYING

54:05 THE OCEAN WITH A.

54:06 A CUP.

54:07 AT THE MOMENT.

54:08 SO YEAH.

54:09 UM AND YOU KNOW OUR OUR OTHER

54:11 DIVISIONS WITHIN THE MAYOR'S

54:12 OFFICE OF HOUSING ARE THINKING

54:13 OF SOME DIFFERENT STRATEGIES

54:16 AROUND HOW DO WE MAKE HOUSING

54:17 MORE FAMILY FRIENDLY BASED OFF

54:19 OF THE CURRENT STOCK THAT WE

54:20 HAVE?

54:20 UM, AND HAVE SOME UM INNOVATIVE

54:23 IDEAS AROUND AROUND THAT PIECE?

54:24 UH, BUT AS IT RELATES TO SORT

54:26 OF UM THINKING ABOUT HOW WE

54:28 SUPPORT FAMILIES AND AND UH

54:31 MAKING SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE

54:32 HOUSING THAT THEY NEED I DO

54:34 THINK IT'S UM UNDERSTANDING THE

54:36 LANDSCAPE OF HOUSING LIKE

54:37 WHAT'S AVAILABLE OBVIOUSLY.

54:39 UM, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

54:40 OF HOUSING WE HAVE THE METRO

54:41 LISTS, WE HAVE HOUSING SEARCH

54:42 WORKSHOPS.

54:43 UM, SO MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE

54:45 KNOW ABOUT THOSE RESOURCES AND

54:46 CAN TALK TO A LIVE PERSON TO

54:48 UNDERSTAND THIS IS THESE ARE

54:49 THE THE DYNAMICS OF MY HOUSING

54:51 AND THESE ARE THE TYPES

54:53 OF ROOMS I NEED OR THIS IS WHAT

54:54 I NEED AND BEING COMFORTABLE

54:55 WITH SHARING THAT YOU KNOW YOU

54:57 NEED A THREE BEDROOM AS OPPOSED

54:59 TO A TWO BEDROOM.

55:00 UM AND THEN YOU KNOW MANY

55:02 HOUSEHOLDS HAVE VOUCHERS SO

55:03 UNDERSTANDING THE THE

55:05 PARAMETERS OF THEIR VOUCHER AND

55:07 DO THEY HAVE THE RIGHT HOUSING

55:08 THAT THEY NEED.

55:09 SO IT'S ALSO A PARTNERSHIP WITH

55:11 UM OUR SUBSIDY ADMIN ESTATE

55:13 ADMINISTRATORS VHA METRO

55:14 HOUSING THE STATE.

55:15 THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

55:17 MR CHAIR.

55:18 THANK YOU UH COUNCIL FLYNN FOR

55:20 YOURS.

55:21 AND THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

55:23 THANK YOU.

55:23 THANK YOU TO COREY.

55:25 AND DANIEL FOR BEING HERE FOR

55:28 THE IMPORTANT WORK YOU WERE

55:29 DOING.

55:30 IN MY OPENING COMMENT I DID

55:32 MENTION THAT COMMISSION THAT

55:34 WAS ESTABLISHED SPECIFICALLY ON

55:35 THIS ISSUE.

55:36 DO YOU HAVE AN UPDATE ON THAT?

55:38 IS THAT COMMISSION STILL IN

55:41 EXISTENCE?

55:43 WHICH ONE COUNCIL IF.

55:45 IT WAS A COMMISSION ESTABLISHED

55:47 BY MAYOR WALSH?

55:48 I KNOW COUNCILOR SABI GEORGE

55:50 DID A LOT OF WORK ON IT BUT

55:52 BASICALLY IT GOT FAMILIES AND

55:57 HOUSING PROVIDERS TOGETHER TO

55:59 DISCUSS THIS SPECIFIC ISSUE.

56:02 UM IT WAS I BELIEVE IT WAS A

56:04 FORMAL COMMISSION THAT WAS

56:06 ESTABLISHED AND THEY DID I

56:08 THOUGHT THEY DID GREAT WORK.

56:10 UM I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF IT IF

56:12 IT'S STILL MEETING OR.

56:14 I THINK SIR.

56:16 I THINK THAT'S A PART OF THE

56:17 HER NETWORK.

56:17 YES.

56:18 UM, THE HOMELESS EDUCATION

56:19 RESOURCE NETWORK.

56:20 I THINK.

56:22 UM IT.

56:23 AND UH I HAVE YOU SO I'VE NEVER

56:26 ATTENDED ONE OF THOSE MEETINGS.

56:27 OKAY.

56:28 UM, OUR OUR PREVIOUS.

56:29 OPERATING UP TO.

56:31 THE YOUTH DIRECTOR UM, LET THAT

56:33 UH WE ARE NOW WE HAVE SHIFTED

56:34 IN OUR DEPARTMENT, UM, WHERE WE

56:38 HAVE MOVED UM, THE EDUCATION

56:40 RESOURCE NETWORK INTO 60 BOSTON

56:43 UM, INTO A MORE HOLISTIC

56:46 APPROACH, UH, WITH THE

56:47 INTERVENTION.

56:47 CENTER.

56:48 UH, WITH THE COUNSELING UH

56:49 WITH SOCIAL WORKERS, WITH THE

56:51 SUPERVISORS OF ATTENDANCE, WITH

56:52 THE HOMELESSNESS INSTABILITY

56:53 AND UM, FOOD INSECURITY, UM,

56:56 ALL UNDER ONE ROOF.

56:57 UM.

56:58 UH JAMILA BY GRANDSON IS OUR

57:00 NEW SENIOR DIRECTOR HAPPY TO

57:01 HAVE HER ON BOARD.

57:02 SHE JUST STARTED LAST WEEK AND

57:03 SHE'S OFF AND RUNNING UM AND

57:04 SHE WILL LEAD THAT WORK IN JUST

57:06 SORT OF LIKE MAKING SURE THAT

57:07 FOLKS STAY CONNECTED AND

57:09 PARTNERS.

57:10 UM.

57:10 YOU KNOW, FROM DC ALL THE

57:12 WAY DOWN TO, UH, FAMILY AID ARE

57:15 SUPPORTED AND UM AND

57:17 MAINTAINING MAINTAINING UM

57:19 COMMUNICATION.

57:20 OKAY.

57:21 UM BUT I'M STILL TRYING TO

57:24 GET THAT ANSWER AND I KNOW IT

57:26 MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO GET BUT

57:29 THERE WAS A THERE WAS A

57:31 COMMISSION ESTABLISHED BY MAYOR

57:33 WALSH AND THEY DID MEET

57:35 FREQUENTLY HERE AT THE CURLEY

57:37 ROOM.

57:37 I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS

57:38 QUARTERLY A MONTHLY AND ALL THE

57:42 HOUSING PROVIDERS AND AND

57:45 EDUCATORS AND NONPROFIT LEADERS

57:47 AND ELECTED OFFICIALS THEY CAME

57:49 TOGETHER FREQUENTLY TO DISCUSS,

57:52 UM, HOW HOMELESSNESS IN THE

57:54 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

57:56 BUT IT PROVIDED A WONDERFUL

57:58 OPPORTUNITY TO SOLVE A LOT

58:00 OF PROBLEMS.

58:01 UM, I UNDERSTAND IT'S PROBABLY

58:04 NOT MEETING I GUESS, BUT IT'S

58:07 STILL IT'S STILL A COMMISSION.

58:10 UM, I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF THE

58:12 HOUSING PROVIDERS THAT ARE

58:14 HERE, UM, HAVE INFORMATION

58:17 ABOUT THIS WHEN THEY WHEN THEY

58:18 HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY

58:19 .

58:20 BUT MY POINT I GUESS IS I

58:24 THOUGHT IT WAS EFFECTIVE AND IT

58:25 WAS IT WAS HELPING PEOPLE AND

58:28 IT WAS A CRITICAL WAY FOR THE

58:31 CITY COUNCIL TO PLAY AN

58:33 IMPORTANT ROLE IN WORKING TO

58:35 ENSURE THAT STUDENTS THAT WERE

58:37 HOMELESS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO

58:39 BE HEARD, UM WITH HOUSING

58:42 ASSISTANCE AND CITY COUNCILORS

58:45 ESPECIALLY COUNCILOR SABI

58:46 GEORGE.

58:47 THEY ADVOCATED FOR THESE

58:48 STUDENTS UM BUT I'LL LEAVE THAT

58:52 FOR ANOTHER TIME.

58:54 UM, SO MY QUESTION MY QUESTION

58:57 WOULD BE IF WHEN STUDENTS ARE

59:01 HOMELESS AND THEY'RE GOING

59:04 THROUGH A CHALLENGING TIME,

59:05 THEIR FAMILIES GOING THROUGH A

59:07 CHALLENGING TIME MAYBE THEY

59:09 WERE EVICTED AND THEY'RE

59:11 LOOKING FOR A PLACE OF OF

59:12 STAYING ON SOMEONE'S COUCH FOR

59:14 A PERIOD OF TIME AND THEN THEY

59:17 THEY'RE IN SCHOOL, THEY WERE

59:18 ASSIGNED TO A SCHOOL AND THEN

59:20 MAYBE THEY HAVE MOVED OUTSIDE

59:23 OF THE DISTRICT TO BROCKTON OR

59:26 TO QUINCY OR TO WEYMOUTH

59:27 SOMEWHERE TO MALDEN.

59:30 UM.

59:31 HOW DO YOU SUPPORT THAT

59:33 STUDENT THAT IS A BOSTON

59:36 RESIDENT BUT IS KIND

59:38 OF TEMPORARILY RELOCATED TO A A

59:41 PARTICULAR CITY, A TOWN OUTSIDE

59:43 OF BOSTON.

59:44 GOOD QUESTION.

59:44 UM, THROUGH OUR.

59:46 THROUGH OUR THROUGH LINES

59:48 OF COMMUNICATION.

59:48 UM, BASED ON THE REFERRALS UM.

59:51 AND TRANSPORTATION THEY WILL

59:53 RECEIVE THROUGH A SUCCESSFUL

59:55 REFERRAL, THEY WILL RECEIVE

59:56 TRANSPORTATION FROM THEIR

1:00:00 DISPLACEMENT SPACE.

1:00:01 UM, TO SCHOOL TO AND FROM

1:00:03 SCHOOL.

1:00:04 UH FROM THERE THEY WILL ALSO

1:00:05 HAVE THE.

1:00:06 ADDITIONAL SERVICES THAT COME

1:00:07 ALONG.

1:00:08 UM, WITH THAT SAID REFERRAL.

1:00:10 UM, MAKING.

1:00:11 SURE THAT THEY GOT SNEAKERS,

1:00:14 CLOTHES.

1:00:14 FOOD UM.

1:00:16 ALSO WORKING WITH FAMILY AID TO

1:00:18 MAKE SURE THE HOUSING THE

1:00:19 HOUSING IS STABILIZED BUT THEY

1:00:21 DO RECEIVE TRANSPORTATION.

1:00:22 OKAY.

1:00:24 I DO REMEMBER A CASE SOMEONE

1:00:26 WAS A BOSTON RESIDENT AND THEY

1:00:29 ACTUALLY HAD TO MOVE SOUTH

1:00:30 ALMOST TOWARDS LIKE NEW BEDFORD

1:00:33 A FALL RIVER AREA AND IT WAS A

1:00:35 MAJOR OBVIOUSLY A MAJOR

1:00:36 TRANSPORTATION CHALLENGE AND

1:00:39 ALSO A CHALLENGE TO PROVIDE

1:00:42 CRITICAL SERVICES FOR THAT

1:00:43 FAMILY AS WELL AND WITH THE

1:00:45 GOAL OF HOPEFULLY GETTING THE

1:00:47 THE FAMILY BACK TO BOSTON WITH

1:00:49 WHAT THEY WANTED TO BE.

1:00:51 BUT HOW DO YOU PROVIDE SOCIAL

1:00:53 SERVICES OR DO YOU PARTNER WITH

1:00:55 A PARTICULAR CITY AND TOWN?

1:00:57 IS THAT ALSO ACCEPTABLE TO

1:00:58 PARTNER WITH A CITY A TOWN THAT

1:01:00 COULD PROVIDE SOME SERVICES TO

1:01:03 THAT FAMILY WHILE THERE UM

1:01:05 LIVING IN A PARTICULAR CITY?

1:01:08 UM IT ACTUALLY DEPENDS ON THE

1:01:09 NEED.

1:01:10 UH AND YOU KNOW, WE HAVE OUR.

1:01:13 UM OUR CLINICIANS AND.

1:01:15 OTHER AND OTHER FOLKS IN OUR

1:01:16 SCHOOLS UH, AS WELL AS.

1:01:18 CENTRAL OFFICE.

1:01:19 SUPPORT, UH, THAT THEY ARE ABLE

1:01:21 TO SUPPORT FAMILIES ALONG WITH

1:01:22 OUR PARTNERS BUT IS ALSO IS IS

1:01:24 REALLY IS TRULY BASED ON THE

1:01:25 NEED FOR EXAMPLE IF A FAMILY

1:01:27 NEEDS UM IF A FAMILY IS

1:01:30 AWAITING A PLACEMENT UH, WE

1:01:32 COORDINATE WITH PARTNERS TO

1:01:33 MAKE SURE THEY HAVE A TEMPORARY

1:01:34 HOUSING WHETHER IT'S A HOTEL OR

1:01:35 ANOTHER SPACE.

1:01:36 LIKE THAT.

1:01:37 UH, BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS THE

1:01:39 BOTTOM LINE IS THAT WE ARE, UH,

1:01:41 ACTIVELY WORKING WITH FOLKS TO

1:01:44 MAKE SURE THAT THEY GET THE

1:01:45 SERVICES THAT THEY NEED WHETHER

1:01:46 IT'S I SELF-IDENTIFIED OR PART

1:01:48 OF OUR UM, PROTOCOLS WHETHER

1:01:51 THROUGH OUR SOCIAL WORKERS OR

1:01:52 OTHER.

1:01:53 FOLKS UM, THAT WOULD ALLOW UM

1:01:55 FOR.

1:01:55 US TO.

1:01:55 SORT OF ASSESS AND UM DIAGNOSIS

1:01:57 SUPPORT.

1:01:58 FAMILIES I WILL I WILL ADD

1:02:00 COUNSELOR THE THE SITUATION

1:02:02 THAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING ARE

1:02:03 USUALLY HOUSEHOLDS WHO ARE IN

1:02:05 THE STATE SHELTER SYSTEM

1:02:06 THROUGH EXECUTIVE OFFICE

1:02:08 OF HOUSING AND LIVABLE

1:02:09 COMMUNITIES FORMERLY DQ'D.

1:02:12 UM AND THOSE ARE HOUSEHOLDS

1:02:13 THAT ARE PLACED IN A SHELTER

1:02:14 WHICH TO YOUR DESCRIPTION COULD

1:02:16 BE NEW BEDFORD OR SOMEWHERE

1:02:17 ELSE IN THOSE INSTANCES UH, AND

1:02:20 WE'VE HAD HOUSEHOLDS REACH OUT

1:02:21 TO OUR OFFICE UM, UH WITH WITH

1:02:24 CERTAIN NEEDS AND REQUESTS SUCH

1:02:26 AS CAN I GET CLOSER TO BOSTON?

1:02:28 SO I WOULD STRESS THAT THOSE

1:02:29 HOUSEHOLDS IN THOSE PARTICULAR

1:02:31 SITUATIONS REACH OUT TO THEIR

1:02:32 UH, HOMELESSNESS PROVIDER WHICH

1:02:34 IS PROVIDED THROUGH THE THROUGH

1:02:36 THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HOUSING

1:02:37 LIVABLE COMMUNITIES.

1:02:38 THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO WORK WITH

1:02:39 THE FAMILY, MAKE SURE THAT ALL

1:02:41 OF THEIR NEEDS ARE SET.

1:02:42 OBVIOUSLY THEY'LL COORDINATE

1:02:43 WITH UM.

1:02:44 THE THE.

1:02:45 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM BUT JUST

1:02:47 WANTED TO STATE THAT FAMILIES

1:02:48 THAT ARE IN SHELTER HAVE CASE

1:02:51 MANAGERS THAT ARE ASSIGNED TO

1:02:52 THEM THAT SHOULD BE RESPONDING

1:02:53 TO ANY NEEDS, ESPECIALLY ONES

1:02:56 WHERE IT REQUIRES THEM TO BE

1:02:58 CLOSER TO THEIR COMMUNITY WHICH

1:03:00 OBVIOUSLY WOULD BE THE CITY

1:03:01 OF BOSTON.

1:03:02 THANK YOU THANK YOU DANIELLE.

1:03:04 THANK YOU COREY THANK THANK YOU

1:03:06 MR CHAIR.

1:03:07 THANK YOU COUNCILOR COUNCILOR

1:03:09 FITZGERALD.

1:03:15 THANK YOU.

1:03:16 THANK YOU CHAIR.

1:03:17 UH MUCH APPRECIATED.

1:03:19 UM I WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO ASK

1:03:20 THAT THE SAME QUESTION AND THAT

1:03:21 WAS MY I WAS GOING TO TRY TO

1:03:22 TAKE A DIFFERENT TACT AND TALK

1:03:24 ABOUT WHAT ARE THEY WHAT ARE

1:03:25 YOU CATEGORIZED AS AND IF YOU,

1:03:27 UH, ARE IN HOMELESS AND THEN

1:03:29 HAVE TO LEAVE I THINK YOU GUYS

1:03:30 ANSWERED THAT.

1:03:31 I ALSO KNOW YOU JUST MENTIONED

1:03:32 THE CASEWORKER PIECE BECAUSE

1:03:34 WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE STUFF

1:03:35 THAT WE'VE DONE AROUND THE

1:03:38 ADDICTION UH, ESPECIALLY DOWN

1:03:40 AT MASS AND CASS AND A LOT

1:03:42 OF THIS IS THIS THE CONTINUUM

1:03:44 OF CARE AND IT'S IT'S REALLY

1:03:45 THE SAME CARE WE'RE TALKING

1:03:46 ABOUT.

1:03:46 ONE MIGHT BE FOR ADDICTION, ONE

1:03:47 MIGHT BE FOR HOMELESS BUT IT'S

1:03:48 THAT CONTINUUM OF CARE FOR THE

1:03:50 CHILD WHILE THEY'RE

1:03:51 EXPERIENCING THIS HOMELESSNESS.

1:03:52 AND A LOT OF THESE THINGS CAN

1:03:54 SORT OF GET UH OVERINVOLVED OR

1:03:57 SUPER COMPLICATED TRYING TO GO

1:03:58 THROUGH THE PROCESS.

1:03:59 AND I KNOW YOU TALKED ABOUT

1:04:00 UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM AND THE

1:04:02 WORK THAT WE HAVE THERE.

1:04:03 I GUESS ONE QUESTION I WILL ASK

1:04:05 IS DO WE FEEL THAT UH WE HAVE

1:04:09 CASEWORKERS THAT ARE WITH FROM

1:04:10 FROM THE MOMENT THAT WE

1:04:11 UNDERSTAND THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY

1:04:13 RIGHT THAT THEY THAT THEY

1:04:14 EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IS

1:04:16 THERE ONE INDIVIDUAL THAT STAYS

1:04:18 WITH THEM OR THEY SORT

1:04:19 OF PASSED ALONG FROM ONE GROUP

1:04:21 TO ANOTHER BECAUSE I FEEL

1:04:22 THAT'S WHEN THINGS FALL THROUGH

1:04:23 THE CRACKS.

1:04:24 UM, AND IF WE HAVE SOMEONE THAT

1:04:26 STAYS WITH THEM IN THE

1:04:27 CONTINUUM OF IT EXPLAINING EACH

1:04:28 STEP OR PIECE OF WHAT THEY

1:04:30 MIGHT NEED TO DO.

1:04:31 UM, AND I KNOW PARENTS A LOT

1:04:33 OF TIMES WITH UH, YOU KNOW,

1:04:34 LANGUAGE BARRIERS AND OTHER

1:04:35 THINGS THAT THEY DON'T

1:04:36 UNDERSTAND AND CAN'T GET TO

1:04:37 THAT NEXT STEP.

1:04:38 UM, SO I'D ASK THAT AND THEN I

1:04:40 GUESS MY SECOND OVERALL GENERAL

1:04:42 QUESTION IS.

1:04:43 DO WE BELIEVE IN THE.

1:04:45 SERVICES THAT WE ARE HAVE

1:04:47 CURRENTLY TO TO ADDRESS THIS

1:04:49 SITUATION OR IS IT THE FUNDING

1:04:52 THAT'S MORE OF THE ISSUE LIKE

1:04:53 IF YOU COULD JUST SAY HEY IF WE

1:04:55 HAD THE MONEY TO.

1:04:55 FUND.

1:04:56 WHAT WE HAVE WE'LL MAKE A BIG

1:04:57 DENT OR IS THERE CORE THINGS

1:04:59 THAT WE NEED TO CHANGE IN THE

1:05:01 SERVICES OFFERED?

1:05:03 UM, AND I GUESS THAT'S A GOOD

1:05:04 TRACK FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND.

1:05:05 IS IT JUST ABOUT BACKING THIS

1:05:07 UP WITH MONEY OR IS IT ABOUT

1:05:09 FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGING SOME

1:05:10 OF THE APPROACHES?

1:05:11 UM, SO I'LL DO THAT ALONG WITH

1:05:13 THE UM, YOU KNOW, THE THE

1:05:15 CASEWORKER ISSUE.

1:05:16 UM, AND THEY'LL BE REALLY ALL I

1:05:18 HAVE MY COLLEAGUES ASK GREAT

1:05:20 QUESTIONS OTHERWISE THANK YOU

1:05:20 GUYS.

1:05:21 YEAH.

1:05:22 ONCE THEY GET TO FAMILY ON

1:05:23 REFERRAL THEY DO GET A

1:05:25 CASEWORKER.

1:05:25 THAT CASEWORKER STAYS WITH

1:05:26 THEM.

1:05:26 OKAY.

1:05:27 UM.

1:05:27 BUT ON THE.

1:05:29 BACK END ON THE

1:05:30 SCHOOL-BASED.

1:05:30 SIDE TO.

1:05:31 COORDINATE THE.

1:05:31 THE CRITICAL PIECE THAT WE HAVE

1:05:33 YET TO MENTION.

1:05:35 UM, IN.

1:05:36 THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

1:05:37 REALM IS THE COORDINATION.

1:05:39 COORDINATION IS CRITICAL.

1:05:42 UM, THE THREE LINES.

1:05:43 OF COMMUNICATION ARE

1:05:43 CRITICAL.

1:05:44 IT'S IT.

1:05:45 THINGS HAPPEN SO.

1:05:46 FAST AND WE'RE NOT YOU WANT TO

1:05:49 SLOW THINGS DOWN SO THINGS.

1:05:51 BECOME MORE CLEAR TO HOW TO

1:05:52 FAMILIES GAIN THEIR

1:05:54 INDEPENDENCE.

1:05:54 UM TO SORT OF LIKE LAND IN A

1:05:56 SPACE THAT'S.

1:05:57 COMFORTABLE FOR THEM.

1:05:58 SO I THINK HAVING THAT

1:06:00 COORDINATION AND THIS IS WHY

1:06:01 WE'RE ALL HERE STRATEGICALLY

1:06:03 THINKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN

1:06:04 IMPROVE THAT.

1:06:06 UM, AND.

1:06:06 THEN.

1:06:07 HAVING TO AND THEN LEADING ON

1:06:08 LIKE THE THE.

1:06:09 PREVENTATIVE UM SIDE.

1:06:12 UM AND THEN THE SECOND PART

1:06:13 OF YOUR QUESTION.

1:06:14 WAS UH, THERE WAS THE CONTINUUM

1:06:16 CARE AND THEN SORT OF REALLY

1:06:18 THE DO WE BELIEVE IN THE

1:06:19 SERVICES WE'RE OFFERING AND

1:06:20 IT'S JUST THE MONEY NEEDED TO

1:06:22 CONTINUE AND EXPAND THEM LIKE

1:06:23 ARE WE OFFERING THE RIGHT

1:06:25 THINGS TO ADDRESS THE RIGHT

1:06:26 PROBLEM OR ARE WE MISSING A

1:06:28 PIECE ANYWHERE ALONG THE STATE

1:06:29 IN YOUR EXPERIENCES AND SAY

1:06:31 IT'D BE GREAT IF WE HAD THIS

1:06:32 ADDITIONAL THING.

1:06:33 BUT THIS IS A COREY MCCARTHY

1:06:37 ANSWER AND THAT ANSWER IS IS

1:06:42 YOU CAN.

1:06:43 FUND YOUR WAY.

1:06:46 AS A COMMUNITY.

1:06:48 AS AN ECOSYSTEM WE COULD

1:06:51 ESSENTIALLY FUND.

1:06:51 OUR WAY.

1:06:52 OUT OF.

1:06:53 THIS ISSUE.

1:06:55 AND WHERE.

1:06:57 FOLKS DON'T HAVE.

1:06:59 TO THEY COULD.

1:07:00 THEY COULD DEMONSTRATE THAT

1:07:01 THEY HAVE.

1:07:03 THE POTENTIAL UM.

1:07:06 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE TO

1:07:08 COVER THEIR RENT LONG TERM.

1:07:10 BUT ALL.

1:07:12 THE THINGS THAT.

1:07:13 COME ALONG WITH HOMELESS.

1:07:15 INSTABILITY IS.

1:07:18 IT IS ACTUALLY.

1:07:20 UM IT'S ACTUALLY VIRAL.

1:07:21 IT'S LIKE A.

1:07:22 VIRUS, RIGHT?

1:07:23 LIKE YOU HAVE YOU KNOW, THE

1:07:25 IMPACT ON THE STUDENT IN

1:07:26 SCHOOLS UM, THE.

1:07:28 SORT OF LIKE ANXIETY AND STRESS

1:07:30 OF.

1:07:31 DEBT OWING.

1:07:32 RIGHT.

1:07:32 UM, THAT THAT HURTS THE

1:07:34 MENTAL HEALTH.

1:07:35 SO IT'S ALL.

1:07:35 THOSE ALL.

1:07:36 THOSE PIECES.

1:07:37 UM.

1:07:38 WHAT FUNDING WILL DO IS

1:07:41 ALLOW FOLKS TO BE REPRESENTED

1:07:42 WELL, RIGHT.

1:07:44 IT WOULD ALLOW.

1:07:45 UM MORE TOUCH POINTS FOR

1:07:47 FAMILIES.

1:07:48 UM IT.

1:07:49 WOULD ALLOW LANDLORDS TO BE

1:07:51 MORE AMENABLE TO SOME OF THE

1:07:53 CHANGES THAT YOU ALL ARE

1:07:54 CAPABLE OF OF MAKING.

1:07:55 AND WHILE MONEY IS NOT THE END.

1:07:59 UM IT'S NOT THE.

1:07:59 END ALL OR THE ULTIMATE.

1:08:01 SOLUTION THE PEOPLE.

1:08:02 WHO DRIVE AND WITH THE

1:08:05 WELL-INTENTIONED PEOPLE THAT I

1:08:06 KNOW IN THE ROOM THAT I'VE I DO

1:08:09 I BARELY KNOW SOME OF THEM.

1:08:10 BECAUSE I'M.

1:08:13 TRANSITIONING FOLKS INTO THE

1:08:14 OTHER ROLE.

1:08:14 BUT I COULD GUARANTEE YOU

1:08:16 ADDITIONAL FUNDING WOULD ALLOW

1:08:19 GREAT PEOPLE TO DO GOOD THINGS

1:08:21 FOR.

1:08:21 STRUGGLING FAMILIES.

1:08:23 SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO

1:08:24 ADD.

1:08:24 ANYTHING THAT.

1:08:25 YEAH JUST ON YOUR YOUR FIRST

1:08:26 QUESTION AROUND THE CASE

1:08:28 MANAGER BECAUSE I WANT TO BE

1:08:29 CLEAR UM, IN TERMS OF WHICH

1:08:31 PROGRAMS YOU'RE REFERRING TO.

1:08:33 SO IF IT'S REFERRING TO ACCESS

1:08:35 TO COUNCILOR WHAT COREY

1:08:36 MENTIONED STANDS BUT IF IT'S UH

1:08:38 RELATED TO A FAMILY THAT HAS

1:08:40 ENTERED INTO THE STATE SHELTER

1:08:41 SYSTEM, THAT'S A DIFFERENT TYPE

1:08:43 OF MECHANISM USUALLY UH, THE

1:08:45 CASE MANAGER DOES STAY WITH

1:08:46 THEM BUT IT DEPENDS ON WHETHER

1:08:48 THEY ARE UH IN AN ACTUAL

1:08:49 SHELTER OR CHOOSE HOME BASE,

1:08:51 WHICH IS A SUBSIDY THAT THE

1:08:53 STATE PROVIDES FOR FAMILIES

1:08:54 THAT UM, WANT TO NOT BE IN

1:08:57 SHELTER.

1:08:58 UM, SO THE THE DIFFERENT

1:09:00 PROGRAMS UNDER EO CHELSEA VARY

1:09:02 IN TERMS OF WHAT CASE

1:09:03 MANAGEMENT IS PROVIDED BUT FOR

1:09:05 ACCESS TO COUNCILOR IT'S THE

1:09:06 SAME SIMILARLY FOR THE SERVICES

1:09:08 THAT IT PROVIDES THE CASE

1:09:10 MANAGER REMAINS THE SAME UNLESS

1:09:11 THEY NO LONGER NEED THAT TYPE

1:09:13 OF SERVICE.

1:09:13 THEN WE NEED TO REASSESS TO

1:09:15 UNDERSTAND OKAY YOU DON'T NEED

1:09:16 LANDLORD TENANT MEDIATION

1:09:18 ANYMORE.

1:09:18 YOU NEED SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

1:09:20 UM SO THAT'S THAT THAT JUST

1:09:22 WANT TO CLARIFY THAT ON THAT

1:09:23 PIECE.

1:09:24 UH TO YOUR SECOND QUESTION ON

1:09:25 THE DIFFERENT TRACK SO IS IT

1:09:26 FUNDING OR IS IT SOMETHING

1:09:27 DIFFERENT THAT WE NEED TO DO

1:09:29 RELATED TO OUR PROGRAMING?

1:09:31 I THINK IT'S A COMBINATION

1:09:31 OF BOTH.

1:09:32 I'LL NEVER SAY NO, WE DON'T

1:09:34 NEED FUNDING.

1:09:34 UH, BUT UNDERSTAND THE THE

1:09:36 ECOSYSTEM THAT WE'RE IN WHERE

1:09:37 IT'S IT'S NOT AS ROBUST AS IT

1:09:39 ONCE WAS.

1:09:40 UM SO ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I

1:09:42 WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THE ACTION

1:09:43 PLAN IS BECAUSE IT ADDRESSES

1:09:44 THAT IF WE AREN'T RECEIVING ANY

1:09:46 NEW INVESTMENTS, WE DON'T HAVE

1:09:48 ADDITIONAL FUNDING THAT WE CAN

1:09:49 ACTUALLY TAP INTO.

1:09:51 THEN WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING

1:09:52 DIFFERENTLY.

1:09:52 WE CAN'T CONTINUE.

1:09:53 THAT'S THE DEFINITION

1:09:54 OF INSANITY, RIGHT?

1:09:55 DOING THE SAME THING HOPING FOR

1:09:56 FOR DIFFERENT RESULTS.

1:09:58 SO THAT'S WHAT THE ACTION PLAN

1:09:59 TRIES TO DO IS WE'VE TRIED

1:10:01 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE DURING THE

1:10:02 PANDEMIC.

1:10:03 IT WAS $20,000 IN THE DROP TO

1:10:06 17 THEN IT DROPPED TO TEN.

1:10:07 NOW IT'S SEVEN NOW IT'S FIVE.

1:10:08 SO OBVIOUSLY FINANCIAL

1:10:09 ASSISTANCE ISN'T WORKING.

1:10:11 IT'S WORKING TO SOME DEGREE.

1:10:12 BUT ARE THERE THINGS THAT WE

1:10:14 NEED TO TO THINK ABOUT

1:10:16 DIFFERENTLY IN TERMS OF WHAT

1:10:17 DOES ECONOMIC MOBILITY LOOK

1:10:19 LIKE.

1:10:20 SO WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE

1:10:21 A LOT OF HOUSEHOLDS AND I THINK

1:10:23 UM ONE OF THE COUNCILORS

1:10:23 MENTIONED THAT WHO ARE WHO ARE

1:10:25 ONE PAYCHECK AWAY FROM NOT

1:10:27 BEING ABLE TO AFFORD RENT.

1:10:28 SO WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE TO

1:10:30 SUSTAIN THAT HOUSEHOLD WHILE

1:10:31 ALSO GIVING THEM THE TOOLS THAT

1:10:32 THEY NEED TO THINK ABOUT

1:10:34 ECONOMIC MOBILITY AND UPWARD

1:10:36 MOBILITY?

1:10:37 UM, SO I DO THINK IT'S A

1:10:38 COMBINATION OF BOTH UH, AND YOU

1:10:40 SORT OF HAVE TO PLAY THE GAME

1:10:42 TO TO WIN TO UNDERSTAND EXACTLY

1:10:44 WHAT RESOURCES YOU HAVE

1:10:45 AVAILABLE.

1:10:45 IF YOU CAN'T HAVE FUNDING THEN

1:10:47 YOU NEED TO THINK ABOUT YOUR

1:10:48 PROGRAMS AND HOW DO YOU CHANGE

1:10:49 THOSE.

1:10:50 YEAH AND THAT'S JUST SOME

1:10:51 OF THE HARD DECISIONS AND

1:10:52 SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO MAKE IT

1:10:53 THE RIGHT WORD.

1:10:54 YEAH IT IS BOTH AND I KNOW IT

1:10:56 WAS BOTH RIGHT BUT IT'S LIKE

1:10:58 BUT SOMETIMES YOU KNOW WE'RE

1:10:59 FORCED HEY WE CAN ONLY DO ONE

1:11:01 OR THE OTHER RIGHT.

1:11:01 AND THAT'S WHY I JUST WANT TO

1:11:03 ASK WHAT FROM WHAT I THINK I

1:11:04 HEAR THE MORE IMPORTANT IS

1:11:05 FUNDING WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE.

1:11:07 WE BELIEVE IN THE PROGRAMS AND

1:11:08 THE PEOPLE THAT ARE CURRENTLY

1:11:09 AND IF I WOULD I WOULD PUT FROM

1:11:11 WHAT I HEAR FROM YOU ALL

1:11:12 FUNDING ABOVE THAT AND I'LL

1:11:13 JUST END WITH SAYING UM, YOU

1:11:14 KNOW, I THINK ABOUT ADDICTION

1:11:17 AND HOMELESSNESS AND WELL OFTEN

1:11:18 THEY'RE PAIRED TOGETHER EVEN IN

1:11:20 A STAND ALONE UH, HOW TO

1:11:22 ADDRESS THEM AND THE WORK THAT

1:11:24 WE'RE DOING AROUND ADDICTION

1:11:25 AND HAVING A CASEWORKER FROM

1:11:26 THE GET GO AND NO MATTER WHAT,

1:11:28 UH, YOU KNOW, HOUSE THEY GO TO

1:11:30 A PROGRAM, THEY ENTER INTO A

1:11:31 DETOX, THEY GO AND I FEEL LIKE

1:11:33 HAVING SOMEONE CONSISTENTLY

1:11:35 THERE THROUGHOUT UM I THINK

1:11:38 THAT APPLIES ON THE ON THE

1:11:39 HOMELESSNESS END TO AND THEN SO

1:11:40 WHETHER IT'S THE STATE BUT

1:11:41 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU JUST

1:11:42 SAID LIKE WELL IF THEY'RE IN

1:11:44 THIS ONE THEN MAYBE THEY DON'T

1:11:46 HAVE IT RIGHT AND THEY CAN'T

1:11:47 AND THEN THEY DON'T AND THEN

1:11:48 THEY COME TO THE NEW ONE AND

1:11:49 THESE FOLKS DON'T KNOW.

1:11:51 OH YOU WERE JUST OVER.

1:11:52 THERE AND WHAT WENT WRONG AND

1:11:53 HOW DO WE KNOW NOT TO MAKE SURE

1:11:54 TO REPEAT THAT MISTAKE?

1:11:55 RIGHT.

1:11:56 UM UH WHEN I THINK OF FUNDING

1:11:59 OR AT LEAST MAYBE NOT THE

1:12:00 FUNDING PIECE BUT A CHANGE

1:12:02 WOULD BE HOW DO WE JUST KEEP.

1:12:03 LIKE.

1:12:03 YOU KNOW, ONE PERSON THROUGHOUT

1:12:05 THAT CAN STAY WITH THEM NO

1:12:06 MATTER WHERE THEY GO, WHAT THEY

1:12:08 DO?

1:12:08 UM, TO REALLY SEE IT THROUGH TO

1:12:10 THE END AND THAT'S THE ONLY WAY

1:12:11 YOU CAN REALLY MAKE SURE LIKE

1:12:12 YOU GO FROM HOMELESS TO STABLE

1:12:14 HOUSING IS YOU HAVE TO SEE IT

1:12:16 THROUGH THE ENTIRE WAY.

1:12:16 SO WE'D LOVE TO WORK WITH YOU

1:12:18 GUYS ON ANY TYPE OF WAY TO HELP

1:12:19 FUND UH, A CONTINUOUS

1:12:22 CASEWORKER UH, NO MATTER WHAT

1:12:23 SYSTEM THAT THEY FIND

1:12:24 THEMSELVES IN.

1:12:25 BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:12:26 THANKS FOR THE EXTRA TIME JOE I

1:12:27 APPRECIATE IT.

1:12:28 ABSOLUTELY.

1:12:28 THANK YOU.

1:12:30 CAN I.

1:12:31 SAY ONE MORE THING.

1:12:32 ABOUT, UH, COUNCILMAN BRADEN'S

1:12:33 .

1:12:34 POINT AROUND EVICTION?

1:12:36 UM.

1:12:36 WHICH WAS ELOQUENTLY

1:12:37 ANSWERED BY DANIELLE.

1:12:39 UM, I THINK.

1:12:40 ANOTHER INDICATOR IS LIKE.

1:12:41 HOME VISITS, RIGHT?

1:12:44 IF YOU SEE HOW PEOPLE ARE

1:12:45 LIVING.

1:12:45 UM.

1:12:46 OUR SUPERVISOR.

1:12:47 THE TENANTS WHO MANAGE THE

1:12:48 CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM, THEY GO TO

1:12:50 HOUSES.

1:12:50 UM.

1:12:51 OUR TEAM.

1:12:52 GOES TO HOUSES.

1:12:54 AND WE HAVE A.

1:12:55 SPECIFIC SCRIPT.

1:12:56 AROUND IS YOU.

1:12:57 KNOW, TYPICALLY IT'S LIKE WHY

1:12:58 AREN'T YOU YOU KNOW, IN OTHER

1:13:00 STATES, RIGHT.

1:13:01 OTHER PLACES.

1:13:02 AS WELL AND.

1:13:03 THEY IMMEDIATELY INTO HOMES

1:13:04 TELLING PEOPLE WHAT.

1:13:05 THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE

1:13:06 DOING.

1:13:06 UH.

1:13:07 I THINK THE BEAUTY OF OF THE

1:13:08 WAY OUR.

1:13:09 APPROACHES TELL.

1:13:10 US WHAT YOU NEED AND THEN.

1:13:12 THE LIVING CONDITIONS ARE OFTEN

1:13:13 THE INDICATOR AS WELL.

1:13:15 UM, AND THEN THE.

1:13:17 I CANNOT UNDERSCORE THE

1:13:18 RELATIONSHIPS.

1:13:19 ENOUGH THE THE THE.

1:13:22 THE THE ONE THING MORE POWERFUL

1:13:23 THAN SOCIAL.

1:13:25 MEDIA IS YOUNG YOUNG.

1:13:26 PEOPLE THEY WILL TELL YOU IF

1:13:28 THEY.

1:13:28 TRUST YOU.

1:13:28 AND UM I THINK THAT IS.

1:13:32 UH IN MY OPINION.

1:13:33 IS IS A TRUE.

1:13:35 EVICTION INVASION STRATEGY.

1:13:37 IS TO GET IT GET BE CREDIBLE

1:13:39 MESSENGERS GETTING INTO THE

1:13:41 HOUSES AND WHETHER OR NOT A

1:13:42 FAMILY.

1:13:44 IS IN A HOME.

1:13:46 IS NOT ENOUGH LIVING.

1:13:47 COMFORTABLY UH.

1:13:49 WITH THE.

1:13:50 APPROPRIATE CONDITIONS FOR

1:13:51 THEIR CHILDREN.

1:13:51 TO BE.

1:13:52 SUCCESSFUL IS THAT.

1:13:53 IS THE END GOAL.

1:13:54 UM FOR US.

1:13:58 THANK YOU AND.

1:14:00 I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH

1:14:01 YOU.

1:14:02 UH, CHIEF MCCARTHY, I THINK A

1:14:04 LOT OF THE WORK THAT YOU DO YOU

1:14:06 CREATE THAT SPACE NOT ONLY FOR

1:14:07 THE STUDENT UM, BUT ALSO FOR

1:14:10 THE FAMILY MEMBER TO OPEN UP

1:14:11 AND LET YOU WIN TELL PROVIDE

1:14:15 THE RESOURCES THAT IS NECESSARY

1:14:17 .

1:14:18 UM, SO I THINK THE MORE THAT WE

1:14:20 ARE INVESTING IN THOSE AFTER

1:14:22 SCHOOL BEFORE SCHOOL SUMMER

1:14:25 PROGRAMING, UH, I THINK WE'RE

1:14:26 CREATING MORE OF THOSE SPACES

1:14:27 UH, FOR PEOPLE TO BE CONNECTED

1:14:30 TO RESOURCES THAT THEY SO

1:14:31 DESPERATELY NEED.

1:14:32 UM, ONE OF MY QUESTIONS AROUND

1:14:34 EVICTION CEILING UM, HOW IS

1:14:36 THAT COORDINATED IF AT ALL INTO

1:14:39 UM, ACCESS TO COUNCILOR?

1:14:41 UH, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT UM,

1:14:44 SOMETIMES UM THE UNFORTUNATE IT

1:14:46 DOES HAPPEN AND THE TENANT DOES

1:14:48 GET EVICTED HOWEVER THAT COULD

1:14:49 BE A BARRIER AND TO THEM TO BE

1:14:51 ABLE TO GET HOUSING IN THE

1:14:53 FUTURE.

1:14:53 YEP.

1:14:54 UM IS ARE WE AUTOMATICALLY

1:14:57 HELPING THAT TENANT UM, SEAL

1:15:00 THEIR RECORD?

1:15:01 YEAH.

1:15:02 UH, AND LUCKILY, UH, JBL'S

1:15:03 IS HERE AND THEY CAN EXPLAIN

1:15:05 MORE ABOUT WHAT THE THE LAWS

1:15:06 AROUND EVICTION SEALING ARE

1:15:08 WHICH ARE VERY COMPLICATED BUT

1:15:09 THROUGH THE ACCESS TO

1:15:11 COUNCILOR PROGRAM PART OF UH IF

1:15:13 YOU ARE ACTIVELY HOUSING COURT

1:15:15 INVOLVED YOU LIKELY AREN'T

1:15:17 ELIGIBLE FOR EVICTION SEALING

1:15:18 UNDER THE THE RULES OF THE

1:15:20 ACTUAL UM LAW BUT SEPARATE FROM

1:15:23 ACCESS TO COUNCILOR.

1:15:25 WE DO OFFER THAT AS A RESOURCE.

1:15:26 SO AS A JBL'S IS ONE OF OUR

1:15:28 PARTNERS THAT DO OTHER UH

1:15:30 EVICTION PREVENTION WORK FOR

1:15:32 THE OFFICE OF HOUSING

1:15:33 STABILITY.

1:15:33 SO WE HAVE RESIDENTS WHO CALL.

1:15:35 I NEED MY RECORDS SEALED.

1:15:37 WE REFER THAT TO US AND THEY

1:15:39 LOOK AT THE HOUSING COURT

1:15:40 DOCKET TO ASSESS DOES THIS

1:15:42 PERSON UH OR IS THIS PERSON

1:15:44 ELIGIBLE TO HAVE THEIR RECORD

1:15:45 SEALED?

1:15:45 UM, SO LIKELY NOT UNDER THE

1:15:47 ACCESS TO COUNCILOR PROGRAM

1:15:48 BECAUSE IT'S A PROGRAM BUILT

1:15:49 FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE ACTUALLY

1:15:51 HOUSING COURT INVOLVED, AT

1:15:52 WHICH POINT YOU LIKELY AREN'T

1:15:54 ELIGIBLE TO HAVE YOUR RECORDS

1:15:55 SEALED VERSUS IF YOU ARE

1:15:57 SOMEONE WHO HAD AN EVICTION

1:15:58 CASE A YEAR AGO AND IT WAS

1:16:00 DISMISSED UM, VOLUNTARILY UH

1:16:02 HAD CAN SPEAK MORE TO THE TO

1:16:04 THE NUANCES OF THE RULE.

1:16:06 UM THEN YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR

1:16:08 UM EVICTION SEALING BUT IT'S A

1:16:10 IT'S A RESOURCE THAT WE PROVIDE

1:16:12 TO RESIDENTS UM AND IT'S ON OUR

1:16:13 WEBSITE SO PEOPLE.

1:16:14 KNOW ABOUT IT.

1:16:15 THANKS.

1:16:16 AND THEN UH, COUNCILOR WEBER

1:16:18 AND THE BCC REPORT STATED IT

1:16:19 WAS LIKE 5405 STUDENTS THAT ARE

1:16:23 EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS AND

1:16:24 I, I UM WOULD LOVE TO GET LIKE

1:16:27 DEEPER INTO THE NUMBERS SO THEN

1:16:29 WE CAN ADVOCATE FOR THE TYPE

1:16:31 OF HOUSING POLICY, UM, TO BUILD

1:16:33 THE INVENTORY TO SUPPORT OUR

1:16:34 STUDENTS.

1:16:35 HOW MUCH INFORMATION DO WE HAVE

1:16:38 ON THOSE FAMILIES WHETHER IT'S

1:16:39 LIKE HOW MANY BEDROOMS THEY

1:16:41 NEED, WHAT IS THEIR INCOME

1:16:43 BECAUSE YOU KNOW, I THINK

1:16:44 THAT'S THE INFORMATION THAT

1:16:45 COULD BE HELPFUL FOR US TO

1:16:47 ADVOCATE FOR, YOU KNOW, THE

1:16:49 TYPE OF INVENTORY THAT WE'RE

1:16:50 BUILDING.

1:16:50 YEAH.

1:16:51 THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT UM,

1:16:52 DATA ON EACH FAMILY.

1:16:54 UM.

1:16:55 YOU KNOW, WE HAVE.

1:16:57 UM WE HAVE INFORMATION ON

1:16:59 FAMILIES EVEN BEFORE THE.

1:17:00 REFERRAL COMES IN.

1:17:01 SO COMPOUND THAT WITH THE NEEDS

1:17:04 BASED ON THE INSTABILITY.

1:17:06 UM, THAT GIVES US EVEN MORE

1:17:08 DATA TO SORT OF.

1:17:09 TRACK HOW WE.

1:17:10 NEED TO APPROPRIATELY SUPPORT

1:17:11 THEM ON WHAT SHOULD WHAT SHOULD

1:17:12 BE.

1:17:13 THE HOW WE COULD SORT OF LIKE

1:17:15 WHO WE SHOULD REFER THEM TO OR.

1:17:17 WHAT PARTNERS WE.

1:17:17 SHOULD.

1:17:17 GET THEM.

1:17:18 INVOLVED UM INVOLVED WITH

1:17:19 UM.

1:17:20 UNPACKING IT SO IT'S SO.

1:17:23 NUANCED.

1:17:23 RIGHT.

1:17:24 UM HOWEVER WHEN YOU'RE DEALING

1:17:26 WITH WITH.

1:17:27 HOMELESSNESS IT JUST LOOKS SO.

1:17:28 MUCH DIFFERENT.

1:17:30 UM AND YOU.

1:17:31 JUST HAVE TO BE BE READY YOU

1:17:33 HAVE TO BE READY.

1:17:36 YOU HAVE TO HONESTLY BE

1:17:38 RESTORATIVE LIKE YOU HAVE TO

1:17:40 OFTENTIMES SOME FOLKS WOULD

1:17:41 RATHER BE HOMELESS THAN TO.

1:17:43 TALK TO US.

1:17:44 SO YOU HAVE TO BE RESTORATIVE

1:17:45 IN YOUR APPROACH.

1:17:46 UM.

1:17:47 AS FAR AS LIKE REPAIRING

1:17:48 SOME OF THE FRACTURED TRUST

1:17:49 THAT FOLKS HAVE WITH THE

1:17:50 COMMUNITY.

1:17:51 UM, SO ALL.

1:17:52 THOSE PIECES MATTER WHEN IT

1:17:53 COMES TO.

1:17:54 WHEN IT COMES TO IT BECAUSE.

1:17:55 AFTER A WHILE AS A COMMUNITY,

1:17:57 ONE THING.

1:17:57 ABOUT THE BOSTON FOLKS ONCE

1:17:58 THEY TRUST YOU THEY'LL TELL YOU

1:17:59 EVERYTHING.

1:18:00 AND THEY'LL LET YOU IN, RIGHT?

1:18:01 YEAH.

1:18:02 AND YEAH.

1:18:03 AND I WOULD JUST ADD UM, IN MY

1:18:05 OPENING I MENTIONED UM, OVER

1:18:06 THE PAST TWO FISCAL YEARS WE'VE

1:18:09 SUPPORTED OVER UH 1300 OUR

1:18:12 HOUSEHOLDS WITH STUDENTS.

1:18:14 UM, WE MAY BE ABLE TO RUN THE

1:18:16 NUMBERS IN TERMS OF INCOME NOT

1:18:17 NECESSARILY YOUR YOUR OTHER

1:18:18 QUESTION OF HOW MANY ROOMS DO

1:18:20 THEY NEED?

1:18:21 UH, THAT SORT OF THING.

1:18:22 SO I'LL TAKE THAT BACK TO SEE

1:18:23 IF WE CAN RUN SOME NUMBERS ON

1:18:24 THAT.

1:18:25 UM, AND THEN UH, DIRECTOR

1:18:28 JOHNSON, YOU MENTIONED THAT

1:18:29 NONPAYMENT OF RENT WAS THE MAIN

1:18:31 REASON, BUT WHAT ARE OTHER SOME

1:18:33 OTHER, YOU KNOW, REASONS WHY

1:18:35 PEOPLE ARE BEING EVICTED.

1:18:37 YEAH.

1:18:38 SO THERE'S THREE TYPES

1:18:39 OF EVICTIONS IN IN

1:18:40 MASSACHUSETTS NONPAYMENT FAULT

1:18:43 AND NO FAULT.

1:18:43 SO FAULT YOU BREACHED THE LEASE

1:18:45 ,YOU HAD A PARTY DAMAGED A LOT

1:18:48 OF THINGS ETC. UH NO FAULT THE

1:18:50 OWNER WANTS TO SELL THE HOME

1:18:52 AND THEY NEED YOU TO TO VACATE

1:18:54 OR THEY NEED THE UNIT EMPTY FOR

1:18:55 THEM TO SELL IT.

1:18:57 UM, SO THOSE ARE THE MAIN, UH,

1:18:58 THREE MAIN TYPES OF EVICTIONS

1:18:59 IN THE CITY.

1:19:01 UM, WHAT WE'RE SEEING JUST

1:19:02 BASED OFF THE DATA IS JUST

1:19:04 NONPAYMENT IS OVERWHELMINGLY

1:19:05 THE REASON WHY 70 OVER 70%

1:19:08 OF FILINGS WITHIN THE CITY ARE

1:19:09 FOR FOR NONPAYMENT CASES.

1:19:10 GOT IT.

1:19:11 AND YOU SAID 75%.

1:19:13 OVER 70%.

1:19:14 OH, WOW.

1:19:15 SO I.

1:19:16 UM AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION

1:19:19 IS AROUND HOW DO WE WORK WITH

1:19:22 OUR TENANTS, UM, WHO ARE IN

1:19:24 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UM, OR THE

1:19:27 LANDLORDS ON ANY EVICTION

1:19:29 CASES?

1:19:30 ARE WE GETTING LIKE THE HEADS

1:19:32 UP UM FROM THEM KEEP TALK ABOUT

1:19:34 ANY COORDINATION AROUND THAT.

1:19:36 YEAH.

1:19:37 SO OUR UM OUR OFFICE WORKS

1:19:40 PRETTY FREQUENTLY WITH VARIOUS

1:19:43 UM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT WHO WHO

1:19:45 RUN AFFORDABLE UNITS.

1:19:46 UH, WE ALSO HAVE OUR HOUSING

1:19:48 COMPLIANCE AND ASSET MANAGEMENT

1:19:48 TEAM, UH, WHICH MANAGES THE

1:19:51 COMPLIANCE OF OUR IDP UNITS IN

1:19:52 THE CITY OF BOSTON.

1:19:54 UH, USUALLY WE RECEIVE A, UM,

1:19:57 EMAIL FROM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT.

1:19:59 WE HAVE THIS TENANT HASN'T BEEN

1:20:00 RESPONSIVE.

1:20:01 COULD THE CITY REACH OUT TO

1:20:02 OFFER SERVICES OR IN SOME

1:20:04 INSTANCES, UM, UH, PROPERTY

1:20:06 MANAGEMENT SEND US A LIST

1:20:07 OF THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE

1:20:09 EITHER ABOUT TO RECEIVE A

1:20:10 NOTICE TO QUIT OR ARE AT THAT

1:20:12 LATER STAGE IN THE EVICTION

1:20:13 PROCESS AND ARE GOING TO

1:20:14 RECEIVE AN EXECUTION.

1:20:16 UM, AND THEN WE WE COORDINATE

1:20:18 WITH OUR HOUSING COMPLIANCE AND

1:20:19 ASSET MANAGEMENT TEAM TO SAY

1:20:21 THIS RESIDENT IS AN IEP UNIT.

1:20:24 IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THEY

1:20:25 RECEIVE PROPER NOTICE BECAUSE

1:20:26 THERE'S CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS

1:20:27 UNDER UM CERTAIN UNITS HAVE A

1:20:30 UH AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING

1:20:31 AGREEMENT THAT THEY HAVE TO

1:20:32 ABIDE BY.

1:20:33 UM, SO WE COORDINATE WITH THEM

1:20:35 UH, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE

1:20:36 EVICTION PREVENTION PLANS WHICH

1:20:38 REQUIRE UH ANY UH PROJECT IN

1:20:41 THE CITY THAT IS RECEIVING

1:20:43 FUNDING.

1:20:43 THEY HAVE TO SUBMIT AN EVICTION

1:20:45 PREVENTION PLAN TO OUR OFFICE

1:20:47 AND WE REVIEW THAT TO MAKE SURE

1:20:48 THAT IT'S UM IT'S CONGRUENT

1:20:51 WITH SORT OF WHAT OUR MISSION

1:20:52 WITHIN THE IN THE MAYOR'S

1:20:53 OFFICE OF HOUSING IS.

1:20:54 IF IT'S NOT, WE HAVE A

1:20:55 CONVERSATION TO SAY THIS PLAN

1:20:57 DOESN'T MEET THE THE MUSTER

1:20:58 THAT WE NEED IT TO MEET.

1:21:00 ARE THERE SOME OTHER PIECES AND

1:21:01 THE PREVENTION PLAN INCLUDES

1:21:03 THINGS LIKE UM IF SOMEONE NEEDS

1:21:05 A REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION HOW

1:21:06 ARE YOU MAKING SURE THEY HAVE

1:21:07 ACCESS TO THAT?

1:21:08 UH WHAT ARE YOUR RULES AROUND

1:21:10 RECERTIFICATION?

1:21:10 DO PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT THE

1:21:11 WHAT THEY NEED TO DO WHEN THAT

1:21:13 SORT OF THING.

1:21:14 SO THOSE ARE THE PREVENTION

1:21:15 PLAN.

1:21:16 SO THAT'S ANOTHER MEASURE WE

1:21:17 HAVE OF HOLDING UM PROPERTY

1:21:20 MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPERS

1:21:22 ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVICTION

1:21:23 ACTIVITY.

1:21:24 OBVIOUSLY WE CAN'T CATCH

1:21:25 EVERYONE.

1:21:26 UH SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT

1:21:27 WE'RE TRYING TO FINE TUNE AND

1:21:28 MAKE IT KNOWN UM THROUGH

1:21:30 COMMUNICATION CHANNELS THAT

1:21:31 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IF

1:21:33 YOU'RE HAVING TROUBLE WITH AN

1:21:34 EVICTION REGARDLESS OF WHETHER

1:21:35 YOU LIVE UM IN MARKET OR

1:21:38 INCLUSIONARY UNITS TO REACH OUT

1:21:39 UH, BUT ESPECIALLY IF YOU LIVE

1:21:42 IN IDP UNITS JUST GIVEN THE

1:21:44 DATA OUR OUR FOLKS THAT ARE

1:21:45 LIVING IN INCOME RESTRICTED

1:21:47 UNITS ARE BEING EVICTED AT

1:21:48 HIGHER RATES OR FASTER RATES

1:21:50 RATHER THAN THOSE IN MARKET.

1:21:52 SO MAKING SURE THAT WE UM MAKE

1:21:56 SURE THAT THEY KNOW THAT THEY

1:21:57 CAN REACH OUT TO OUR OFFICE AND

1:21:58 USE THIS AS A RESOURCE.

1:22:00 OKAY, MY LAST QUESTION AND I'LL

1:22:02 GO TO MY.

1:22:03 COUNCIL COLLEAGUES FOR SECOND

1:22:04 ROUND, UH, YOU KNOW, KIND

1:22:07 OF PIGGYBACKING OFF OF A

1:22:08 RECOMMENDATION THAT

1:22:09 COUNCILOR WEBER UH, PUT FORWARD

1:22:12 IS COMMUNICATION ABOUT THE

1:22:13 RESOURCES LIKE, YOU KNOW, EVERY

1:22:15 STUDENT GETTING YOU KNOW, MAYBE

1:22:17 AT THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL AND

1:22:18 HALFWAY IN THE MIDDLE OF SCHOOL

1:22:20 GETTING LIKE ALL THESE

1:22:21 RESOURCES ON YOU KNOW WHAT

1:22:24 WHAT'S OUT THERE RIGHT FOR THEM

1:22:26 UM, SO SIMILAR TO LIKE THOSE

1:22:28 INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE UM IN SOME

1:22:30 OF THESE AFFORDABLE UNITS THEY

1:22:32 MAY BE, YOU KNOW, A MAILER LIKE

1:22:34 ONCE A YEAR LIKE DO YOU KNOW

1:22:36 THAT YOU KNOW HERE GOES OFF AS

1:22:40 HOUSING STABILITY RIGHT?

1:22:40 THIS IS YOU KNOW, THE THE UH

1:22:44 THE RESOURCES THAT ARE

1:22:44 AVAILABLE TO YOU.

1:22:46 UM AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION IS

1:22:48 THE EVICTION PREVENTION PLAN IS

1:22:49 THAT FOR THE SITE OR IS AT AN

1:22:52 INDIVIDUAL PLAN FOR FOR

1:22:54 INDIVIDUAL THAT'S GOING THROUGH

1:22:55 EVICTION?

1:22:56 YEAH.

1:22:57 SO IT DEPENDS UH, WHAT THE

1:22:59 DEVELOPER UH PROPOSES.

1:23:01 SO SOMETIMES IT'S PORTFOLIO

1:23:02 WIDE.

1:23:03 SO IT'S ONE EVICTION PREVENTION

1:23:04 PLAN LET'S SAY WHEN MANAGEMENT

1:23:06 AND THEY WANT THEIR EVICTION

1:23:07 PREVENTION PLAN TO BE FOR ALL

1:23:10 OF THEIR PROPERTIES WITHIN THE

1:23:11 CITY OF BOSTON WITHIN THE

1:23:12 NATION.

1:23:13 OR IT COULD BE I WANT IT

1:23:15 SPECIFIC TO THIS PARTICULAR UM

1:23:17 PROJECT.

1:23:18 SO IT REALLY DEPENDS AND PART

1:23:19 OF THE REVAMP OF OUR EVICTION

1:23:20 PREVENTION PLAN PROCESS MAKES

1:23:22 THAT CLEAR SO THAT WHEN

1:23:23 RESIDENTS TO REACH OUT EITHER

1:23:25 TO THE OFFICE OF HOUSING

1:23:26 STABILITY OR HOUSING COMPLIANCE

1:23:27 AND ASSET MANAGEMENT TEAM, WE

1:23:29 KNOW EXACTLY OKAY.

1:23:31 THEY DON'T HAVE AN EVICTION

1:23:32 PREVENTION PLAN ON THIS ON THIS

1:23:33 PARTICULAR PROPERTY OR THIS IS

1:23:36 PORTFOLIO WIDE AND THEY DIDN'T

1:23:37 DO WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO

1:23:38 DO.

1:23:38 SO WE NEED TO HAVE A

1:23:40 CONVERSATION OF HOW THEY'RE

1:23:41 GOING TO RECTIFY UM THE THE

1:23:43 HARM DONE TO THE TENANT OKAY.

1:23:45 THANK YOU COUNCIL WEBER.

1:23:49 THANK YOU.

1:23:50 JUST A COUPLE FOLLOW UP

1:23:51 QUESTIONS.

1:23:52 UM SO.

1:23:53 UH, ONE IS WE TALKED ABOUT.

1:23:55 THE REHAB PROGRAM AND SO YOU

1:23:58 KNOW, LAST YEAR WE WERE

1:23:59 NOTIFIED I THINK IT WAS LIKE

1:24:01 $750,000.

1:24:01 THAT WAS THE FUNDING WE WERE

1:24:02 LOSING.

1:24:03 MAYBE IT WAS BECAUSE OF ESSER I

1:24:04 CAN'T.

1:24:04 REMEMBER UH AND THAT IT'S BEING

1:24:06 FUNDED OR.

1:24:07 UNDER EARMARKED.

1:24:09 SO WHEN WE GOT THAT YOU.

1:24:11 KNOW WHEN I WHEN I GOT THAT

1:24:12 INFORMATION I CALLED.

1:24:13 I HAVE TO UH REP BILL.

1:24:14 MCGREGOR AND AND SEE ROBSON

1:24:17 MONTANO.

1:24:18 AND I THINK WHEN YOU'RE TALKING

1:24:20 ABOUT EARMARKS I KNOW THERE'S I

1:24:21 THINK THEY BOTH PUT IN FOR

1:24:22 EARMARKS.

1:24:22 I'M NOT SURE YOU KNOW I THINK

1:24:24 THEY CAME IN.

1:24:25 BUT I'M NOT SURE IT WAS THE

1:24:26 WHOLE AMOUNT OR.

1:24:29 UM SO WHAT I GUESS WHAT IS THE

1:24:31 THE.

1:24:31 NUMBER 450,000.

1:24:32 YEAH.

1:24:33 SO THEY SAY THANK YOU TO

1:24:35 GREGOR AND REP MONTANO.

1:24:38 UM SO WHAT'S THE WHAT'S THE

1:24:40 PLAN FOR NEXT YEAR?

1:24:41 UH FOR THE FUNDING FOR.

1:24:43 EB WELL, UM THE HOPE IS TO

1:24:45 CONTINUE TO USE FORUMS.

1:24:48 LIKE THIS FOR THE ADVOCACY.

1:24:50 UM I I AS I MENTIONED BEFORE.

1:24:53 WAS IT.

1:24:53 WAS ESSER FUNDED AND GRANT

1:24:55 FUNDED.

1:24:55 UM I THINK WHAT WE ARE ABLE TO

1:24:57 DO TODAY.

1:24:58 IS TO.

1:24:58 REALLY LAND THE PLANE ON.

1:25:00 IDENTIFYING THAT THIS IS THIS

1:25:02 IS SOMETHING.

1:25:03 THAT NEEDS TO BE.

1:25:06 UM IT NEEDS MORE ATTENTION,

1:25:07 RIGHT?

1:25:08 IT NEEDS TO BE OPERATIONALLY

1:25:09 FUNDED.

1:25:10 UM.

1:25:11 YOU KNOW, I CAN'T BE A YOUNG

1:25:14 MAN THAT CAME UP IN THE.

1:25:15 CITY OF BOSTON.

1:25:16 AND HAVE.

1:25:17 THIS OPPORTUNITY.

1:25:18 TO BE.

1:25:18 IN FRONT OF YOU AND NOT

1:25:19 MENTIONED THE ECONOMICS.

1:25:20 OF THIS SITUATION OF HOMELESS

1:25:22 INSTABILITY.

1:25:22 AND THE COMMUNITY NOT HAVING

1:25:25 THE.

1:25:26 AND CONNECTING WITH THE

1:25:27 ECONOMICS OF THE SITUATION AS

1:25:28 WELL.

1:25:29 UM.

1:25:30 WHERE WE.

1:25:31 DON'T MENTION LIKE THE IMPACT

1:25:34 OF NOT HAVING RENT.

1:25:34 CONTROL OR.

1:25:35 ANYTHING OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT

1:25:37 RIGHT.

1:25:37 LIKE WE HAVE.

1:25:38 TO SAY THOSE.

1:25:38 THINGS OUT LOUD.

1:25:39 AND AND WHEN YOU DO THAT YOU

1:25:43 EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY.

1:25:44 THEY THEY START REACHING OUT TO

1:25:45 YOU ALL AND EMPOWER YOU ALL A

1:25:46 LOT.

1:25:47 MORE TO UM TO.

1:25:49 DO EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID IN

1:25:51 ESTABLISHED AND GET THE.

1:25:52 UM GET THE FUNDING.

1:25:53 FOR THE FOR THE SUPPORT.

1:25:55 UH I THINK THAT'S THE NEXT

1:25:57 LAYER.

1:25:58 UM BUT WE WILL THERE'S BEEN

1:26:00 SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS FROM

1:26:02 DPS.

1:26:02 ON THE SCHOOL BASED LEVEL TO.

1:26:04 SCHOOLS THAT ALLOW THEM TO.

1:26:05 SUPPORT STUDENTS WHO ARE

1:26:07 EXPERIENCING HOMELESS

1:26:07 INSTABILITY.

1:26:08 UM.

1:26:09 OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, UH,

1:26:11 THAT NUMBER WAS $1.9 MILLION

1:26:14 UH.

1:26:14 FY.

1:26:15 26 $1.8 MILLION.

1:26:16 AND THIS CURRENT YEAR $1.8

1:26:17 MILLION IS.

1:26:18 DISTRIBUTED TO SCHOOLS BASED ON

1:26:20 UM THE STUDENTS WHO ARE

1:26:22 EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.

1:26:23 UH, WE.

1:26:24 SPEND UM I THINK WE'RE AT THE

1:26:25 TOP TEN IN THE NATION.

1:26:27 IN UM SPENT SPENDING PER

1:26:28 STUDENT UH, FOR HOMELESSNESS

1:26:30 $600 PER STUDENT.

1:26:31 UH, OBVIOUSLY IT COULD BE MORE.

1:26:33 UH BUT WE'RE JUST TRYING TO DO

1:26:35 OUR PART WITH WHAT?

1:26:35 WITH WHAT WE HAVE AND.

1:26:37 UM, HOPEFULLY.

1:26:38 THIS ADVOCACY COULD LEAD TO.

1:26:39 US, UM, TO.

1:26:41 THIS BEING.

1:26:42 ,UH, AN.

1:26:43 ENHANCED PRIORITY FOR EVERYONE.

1:26:44 BECAUSE HOMELESS INSECURITY.

1:26:46 AND INSTABILITY IT'S A.

1:26:47 COMMUNITY ISSUE.

1:26:48 YEAH.

1:26:49 I WOULD.

1:26:49 I WOULD JUST ADD UM, IN TERMS

1:26:52 OF WHAT'S NEXT FOR ACCESS TO

1:26:54 COUNCIL AND AND UH OR THE E

1:26:56 PROGRAM IN PARTICULAR UM WHICH

1:26:58 ACCESS TO COUNCIL IS A PART

1:27:00 OF BUT WE'VE THROUGH THIS

1:27:01 PROGRAM BEEN ABLE TO IDENTIFY A

1:27:02 FEW SCHOOLS THAT HAVE HAD UH

1:27:05 PRETTY HIGH RATES OF REFERRALS

1:27:07 TO UM THEIR PROGRAM.

1:27:09 SO REALLY THINKING ABOUT UH

1:27:11 AGAIN GOING BACK TO HOW DO WE

1:27:12 MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE UM GETTING

1:27:14 PEOPLE THE RESOURCES THEY NEED.

1:27:15 SO IF WE KNOW FOR INSTANCE THAT

1:27:17 JOSEPH LEA K THROUGH EIGHT IS

1:27:19 ONE OF THOSE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE

1:27:20 THE HIGHEST REFERRALS UM FOR

1:27:22 THE ACCESS TO COUNCILOR PROGRAM

1:27:24 ,HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT UM

1:27:26 THE SCHOOL IS GETTING THE

1:27:27 RESOURCES THEY NEED?

1:27:28 ARE THERE SOME PIECES OR ARE

1:27:29 THERE SOME COMPONENTS ARE THERE

1:27:30 HOUSEHOLDS THERE UM THAT WE

1:27:32 REALLY NEED TO FOCUS ON?

1:27:33 UM AND SIMILARLY UM HOW DO WE

1:27:36 EVALUATE THE SUCCESS OF THE

1:27:38 PROGRAM?

1:27:38 SO WE'RE UH IN THE PROCESS

1:27:40 OF SUBMITTING UH OR WE HAVE

1:27:41 SUBMITTED AN APPLICATION TO UM

1:27:43 THE BLOOMBERG CITY EXCHANGE TO

1:27:45 GET AN IDEA OF WE KNOW THAT

1:27:48 THOSE STATISTICS IN TERMS

1:27:50 OF REPRESENTATION OVER 90%

1:27:52 OF LANDLORDS ARE REPRESENTED

1:27:52 COMPARED TO LESS THAN 5%

1:27:55 OF TENANTS IN THE CITY NOT ONLY

1:27:56 IN THE CITY BUT THE STATE OF UH

1:27:57 OR THE COMMONWEALTH.

1:27:58 UM, SO UNDERSTANDING JUST THAT

1:28:01 STATISTIC ALONE, WHAT DOES THAT

1:28:02 MEAN FOR THE FAMILIES THAT ARE

1:28:03 ABLE TO UH, HAVE THE BLESSINGS

1:28:06 OF THE WORLD COME IN AND

1:28:07 SUPPORT THEM?

1:28:08 SO UH, JUST WANTED TO CHIME IN

1:28:10 THERE AND PROVIDE THAT CONTEXT

1:28:11 OF WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE PROGRAM.

1:28:13 OKAY.

1:28:13 YEAH.

1:28:14 AND I THINK PRIVATE FUNDING IS.

1:28:17 SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD BE

1:28:18 LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, AND

1:28:20 ADVOCATING UH, YOU KNOW, ALL

1:28:21 FOR SO IF YOU SEE A UH, YOU

1:28:24 KNOW, SOMEBODY WHO COULD MAYBE

1:28:26 HELP AND I'M SURE WOULD ALL BE

1:28:28 WILLING TO LIKE, YOU KNOW, MAKE

1:28:29 THE PITCH UM, UH, THEN I GUESS

1:28:31 SO JUST TWO MORE QUESTIONS.

1:28:33 SO COREY, WHAT HAPPENS IF WE

1:28:34 DON'T HAVE A HIP LIKE WHAT DOES

1:28:36 THAT IN TERMS OF ADVOCATING FOR

1:28:38 FUNDING FOR NEXT YEAR?

1:28:39 LIKE WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE IF

1:28:41 WE JUST DON'T HAVE THAT?

1:28:43 I DON'T SEE A WORLD WHERE WE

1:28:45 DON'T.

1:28:45 WHERE WE DON'T MAKE UH SOME

1:28:49 SORT OF FINANCIAL.

1:28:50 CARD OR.

1:28:51 IT'S NOT I.

1:28:52 JUST MEAN LIKE GOD FORBID LIKE

1:28:54 YOU KNOW, WE JUST DON'T FUND

1:28:56 IT.

1:28:56 IT DOESN'T EXIST.

1:28:57 WHAT IS WHAT IS IT LOOK LIKE IN

1:28:59 BOSTON?

1:28:59 UH, FOR FOR SO.

1:29:01 AND THIS IS AN EDUCATED GUESS

1:29:03 UM, I THINK IF THERE'S THERE IS

1:29:06 I THINK WE WOULD HAVE TO

1:29:08 REEVALUATE OUR INTERNAL.

1:29:10 INVESTMENT IN.

1:29:13 IN UM SCHOOLS THAT WE HAVE UM,

1:29:15 THAT SORT OF LIKE FUNDING THAT

1:29:17 WE CONTRIBUTED.

1:29:17 UM THAT 1.8 WE WOULD HAVE TO

1:29:19 LOOK AT THAT TO SEE HOW WE CAN

1:29:21 UM.

1:29:22 AND THAT'S A.

1:29:23 TOUGH THING.

1:29:24 TO.

1:29:24 ASK TO LIKE REMOVE THAT.

1:29:25 PIECE FROM THE SCHOOLS.

1:29:26 UM.

1:29:27 AND THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M

1:29:28 SAYING.

1:29:28 WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT THAT

1:29:29 IS.

1:29:29 THE FUNDING THAT'S ALLOCATED

1:29:31 THIS YEAR GOING DIRECTLY TO.

1:29:32 SCHOOLS TO.

1:29:34 COVER SUPPLIES COME WITH STATE

1:29:35 STIPENDS OVER OVERTIME.

1:29:36 ON THOSE PIECES.

1:29:37 I THINK.

1:29:38 THAT'S THE NEXT STEP.

1:29:39 BUT WE HAVE TO BE VERY LOUD

1:29:41 ABOUT UM THE NEED UM YOU HAVE

1:29:44 TO, UM, ENGAGE OUR OUR FAMILIES

1:29:46 AND OUR COMMUNITIES.

1:29:47 OUR CBOS.

1:29:48 ARE NONPROFITS OUR OUR

1:29:49 CRITICAL PARTNERS, UM.

1:29:50 TO.

1:29:51 REALLY, UM.

1:29:52 WORK WITH YOU ALL.

1:29:54 TO UH, TO.

1:29:54 GET TO THE.

1:29:55 CITY AND.

1:29:56 STATE.

1:29:56 LEVEL TO REALLY, UM REALLY PUT

1:30:00 PUT THEIR BEST OUR BEST FOOT

1:30:01 FORWARD UM, WHETHER IT'S

1:30:03 FINANCIALLY OR UH, PROGRAMMATIC

1:30:04 SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES.

1:30:05 YEAH.

1:30:06 UH, JUST JUST ONE THOUGHT UM

1:30:09 ,UH, YOU KNOW, I DO YOU WRITE

1:30:11 ABOUT TEENAGERS.

1:30:12 I DO WONDER LIKE OUR ATHLETES

1:30:15 HOW MANY ARE EXPERIENCING

1:30:16 HOMELESSNESS?

1:30:16 UM, TO THINK ABOUT KIDS, YOU

1:30:18 KNOW, ACHIEVING UH, YOU KNOW,

1:30:20 WHETHER IT'S ON THE BASEBALL

1:30:21 FIELD OR BASKETBALL COURT AND

1:30:23 GOING THROUGH THIS, UH, YOU

1:30:25 KNOW, IN THEIR LIVES IS, YOU

1:30:26 KNOW, ANYWAY IN TERMS

1:30:28 OF ADVOCATING FOR THE NEED FOR

1:30:29 IT, UH, I THINK THAT THAT MIGHT

1:30:30 HELP.

1:30:31 UH, AND I I DID HAVE AN IDEA

1:30:33 FOR MY, UH, CHIEF OF STAFF

1:30:35 WHO'S JUST HAD A BABY AND IT'S

1:30:36 BEEN A LOT OF, UH,

1:30:38 PEDIATRICIANS OFFICES.

1:30:39 YOU KNOW, THEY THEY ASK PEOPLE

1:30:40 IN THE BEGINNING, YOU KNOW,

1:30:41 WITH THE IPADS NOW LIKE YOU

1:30:43 KNOW WHAT OR DO YOU ARE YOU

1:30:46 WORRIED ABOUT YOUR HOW THEY DO

1:30:47 WHAT THEY DO?

1:30:47 WELL I THINK TO CHERYL'S POINT

1:30:49 ABOUT YOU KNOW, DOING THAT YOU

1:30:51 KNOW IDENTIFYING OUR KIDS HERE

1:30:53 IN THE DISTRICT YOU KNOW MAYBE

1:30:54 JUST EMPLOYING SOME OF THOSE

1:30:57 QUESTIONS AND GETTING THAT

1:30:59 INFORMATION MAYBE EVEN ON A

1:31:01 SOME SORT OF BASIS WHERE THEY

1:31:02 DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY'RE, YOU

1:31:04 KNOW, TOUTING THEMSELVES IN

1:31:05 FRONT OF EVERYBODY.

1:31:06 UM, BUT YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE

1:31:08 IT.

1:31:08 I APPRECIATE THE CHAIR.

1:31:09 UM.

1:31:09 AND THANK YOU FOR FOR

1:31:11 EVERYTHING.

1:31:12 THANK YOU.

1:31:13 UM, LOOKING TO MY COLLEAGUES TO

1:31:14 SEE IF THAT.

1:31:15 SECOND ROUND.

1:31:16 OKAY, COUNSELOR BRENNAN.

1:31:17 YEAH, JUST A QUICK ONE.

1:31:19 AND JUST IN TERMS OF YOUR

1:31:20 THOUGHTS ON HOW WE MIGHT

1:31:21 IMPROVE COORDINATION BETWEEN

1:31:23 THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING,

1:31:25 UH, HOUSING STABILITY, LEGAL

1:31:27 SERVICES AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS

1:31:29 LIKE SOMETIMES SOMETIMES YOU

1:31:31 JUST DON'T CONNECT THE DOTS AND

1:31:33 PEOPLE FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS.

1:31:34 EXCUSE ALL THESE, UH, ANALOGIES

1:31:36 ,BUT, UM, HOW CAN WE IMPROVE

1:31:38 THINGS AND IN TERMS OF THE

1:31:40 COORDINATION AND AND AND.

1:31:42 CROSS WELL.

1:31:43 I THINK WE HAVE TO WE HAVE

1:31:47 OUR WE ALL HAVE OUR MEETINGS

1:31:49 RIGHT THAT YOU HAVE AND AND I

1:31:50 THINK WE SOMETIMES.

1:31:53 FOLKS YOU COULD BECOME ALL

1:31:54 MEETING UP BECAUSE WE ALL HAVE

1:31:55 THINGS TO DO.

1:31:57 UM I THINK WE JUST HAVE.

1:31:59 TO WHEN WE DESIGN LIKE WHEN WE

1:32:01 HAVE OUR CROSS.

1:32:02 FUNCTIONAL OR.

1:32:03 CROSS UM PARTNERSHIP

1:32:04 MEETINGS, I THINK WE HAVE THE

1:32:07 BEST WAY.

1:32:07 TO TO IMPROVE THINGS.

1:32:09 IS TO REALLY LIKE MIND DOWN

1:32:10 INSTEAD OF TRYING TO DO 20.

1:32:12 THINGS YOU FOCUS ON.

1:32:15 AS A COLLECTIVE.

1:32:16 YOU FOCUS.

1:32:16 ON THREE THINGS CAN WE FOCUS.

1:32:19 ON IDENTIFICATION?

1:32:20 CAN WE FOCUS ON RECOGNITION?

1:32:22 UH NOT RECOGNITION.

1:32:23 CAN WE FOCUS ON PREVENTION?

1:32:25 CAN WE FOCUS.

1:32:27 ON RESPONSE.

1:32:28 AND THAT.

1:32:29 GIVES YOU SOME.

1:32:30 ALIGNMENT RIGHT.

1:32:30 NOT TO SAY THERE'S THIS

1:32:32 ALIGNMENT I THINK WE'RE ALL

1:32:33 HERE BECAUSE WE'RE ALIGNED ON

1:32:34 THE.

1:32:34 ON THE.

1:32:35 PURPOSE AND THE CAUSE.

1:32:36 BUT THAT IMPROVEMENT ON THE

1:32:39 EFFICACY AND AND THE OVERALL

1:32:41 COMMITMENT TO LIKE IMPROVING ON

1:32:42 THE QUALITY IS THE BEST WAY UM

1:32:44 ,FOR US TO GET IT DONE.

1:32:46 OUR EVERYBODY'S HEART'S IN THE

1:32:46 RIGHT.

1:32:47 PLACE BUT I THINK.

1:32:48 YOU KNOW, IT'S SORT OF LIKE IF

1:32:49 YOU HAVE.

1:32:51 UM YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES

1:32:52 EVERYBODY'S.

1:32:53 IN A KNOT TO SAY THIS HAPPENS

1:32:54 IN.

1:32:54 THESE MEETINGS BUT.

1:32:54 SOMETIMES YOU GO TO A MEETING

1:32:55 AND YOU'RE JUST.

1:32:56 NOT TALKING ABOUT.

1:32:58 UM, THE MAIN THING I THINK LIKE

1:33:00 HAVING THE QUALITY HAVING THE

1:33:01 EFFICACY UM AROUND THAT I THINK

1:33:03 THAT WILL ALLOW.

1:33:04 US TO.

1:33:04 REALLY FIND OUT UH AND SCALE IT

1:33:07 OUT FOR SCALE THE SUPPORT AND

1:33:09 SOLUTIONS.

1:33:10 OUT UM.

1:33:11 TO A BROADER RANGE IF YOU JUST

1:33:13 SAY HEY LOOK, HERE ARE THE

1:33:13 THREE THINGS.

1:33:14 WE'RE COMMITTED TO AND THEN

1:33:15 TAKE.

1:33:15 THE STEPS AFTER THAT.

1:33:18 DO WE HAVE ANY SORT

1:33:20 OF ACTIONABLE GOALS AND ARE WE

1:33:22 SAYING LET'S REDUCE THIS BY 10%

1:33:25 OR IT'S LIKE I KNOW IT'S A

1:33:27 NEBULOUS BUT DO WE DO WE DO WE

1:33:31 NEED TO BE MORE GOAL ORIENTED

1:33:33 IN TERMS OF THINKING ABOUT

1:33:36 ELIMINATING OR REDUCING AS MUCH

1:33:38 AS POSSIBLE UM, HOMELESSNESS

1:33:41 FOR OUR FAMILIES?

1:33:42 I THINK.

1:33:43 GIVEN THE SEVERITY.

1:33:44 OF.

1:33:44 THIS, I THINK IF YOU WOULD THE

1:33:46 THE THERE'S ONLY ONE GOAL AND

1:33:48 THAT'S TO HAVE NO ONE RIGHT.

1:33:49 AND UM.

1:33:51 I THINK WHEN WE START PLACING

1:33:53 THE WHOLE SORT OF.

1:33:55 UM KPIS ON.

1:33:57 ON THINGS IT.

1:33:58 SORT OF LIKE.

1:33:59 DILUTES SOME OF THE OTHER.

1:34:01 SPECIFIC AREAS.

1:34:02 BECAUSE FOR EVERY SINGLE.

1:34:05 UM METRIC WE THROW IT FOLKS.

1:34:07 THERE'S ANOTHER FORM

1:34:08 OF HOMELESS INSTABILITY THAT

1:34:09 POPS UP UM, FOR INSTANCE.

1:34:11 MORE RECENTLY YOUR.

1:34:13 COUCH SURFERS OR YOUR STUDENTS

1:34:14 WHO.

1:34:14 WHO ARE WHO AGED OUT

1:34:16 OF SUPPORT.

1:34:17 UM AND.

1:34:18 THAT ADDS.

1:34:19 TO THAT YOU BRING IN ANOTHER

1:34:21 METRIC TO THE TO THE PARTY AND

1:34:23 THEN IT'S LIKE MORE NUMBERS.

1:34:24 UH, SO I THINK YOU KNOW, WE

1:34:27 JUST HAVE.

1:34:28 TO TRULY LIKE KEEP IN THE KEEP

1:34:30 FOCUSING ON LIKE MINING DOWN IN

1:34:33 SPECIFIC AREAS NOT JUST BABY

1:34:35 STEPS BUT SORT OF.

1:34:36 LIKE THE LARGER.

1:34:37 UM THE LARGER SUPPORT FOR THE.

1:34:40 ECOSYSTEM WHILE LIKE DOING.

1:34:42 CONTINUING ON A SCHOOL.

1:34:43 BASED LEVEL.

1:34:43 WITH THE.

1:34:44 BABY STEPS OF THE

1:34:45 IDENTIFICATION, THE.

1:34:46 PREVENTION AND THE RESPONSE.

1:34:47 OKAY.

1:34:48 THANK YOU I KNOW WE'VE GOT

1:34:49 ANOTHER PANEL SO I'LL LIMIT MY

1:34:51 QUESTIONS TONIGHT.

1:34:52 THANK YOU.

1:34:54 SIR.

1:34:55 ALL RIGHT WELL.

1:34:57 THANK YOU UM TO THE PANELISTS

1:35:00 UH THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK

1:35:01 .

1:35:02 UM, AND UH THANK YOU FOR YOUR

1:35:04 TESTIMONY AND LOOKING FORWARD

1:35:06 TO CONTINUING THIS WORK IN THIS

1:35:08 CONVERSATION WITH YOU.

1:35:09 THANK YOU.

1:35:12 UM, NOW WE'LL GO TO OUR SECOND

1:35:15 PANEL.

1:35:40 OKAY.

1:35:42 GREAT.

1:35:42 GOOD.

1:35:45 YEAH.

1:35:52 SORRY.

1:35:52 I MEAN HOW I HOW YOU KNOW.

1:35:58 YEAH.

1:35:59 YOU SAW OH, SORRY.

1:36:09 OKAY.

1:36:11 YOU.

1:36:26 OKAY?

1:36:28 YEAH.

1:36:28 SO.

1:36:31 I LIKE I I THINK THIS IS.

1:36:50 ALL RIGHT.

1:36:51 WELL THANK YOU UM, TO THIS

1:36:53 SECOND PANELIST.

1:36:54 WHAT WHAT I WOULD LOVE TO DO IS

1:36:56 ,UM, FROM MY LEFT TO RIGHT IF

1:36:58 YOU COULD JUST BRIEFLY

1:37:00 INTRODUCE YOURSELF, UM, IN YOUR

1:37:01 ORGANIZATION LOST YOUR TITLE.

1:37:03 GREAT.

1:37:03 THANK YOU.

1:37:04 GOOD AFTERNOON.

1:37:05 I'M CHRISTY STAPLES FROM UNITED

1:37:06 WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY AND

1:37:08 I'M THE VICE PRESIDENT OF WHAT

1:37:10 WE CALL OUR SAFE AND STABLE

1:37:11 STABLE HOUSING.

1:37:12 IMPACT AREA.

1:37:15 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

1:37:16 MY NAME IS DOCTOR BRANDI

1:37:17 BROOKS.

1:37:18 I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

1:37:20 OF BOSTON'S HIGHER GROUND AND

1:37:22 WE FOCUS ON SUPPORTING HOMELESS

1:37:24 STUDENTS AND FAMILIES GET

1:37:25 HOUSED IN STAY HOUSED

1:37:27 EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND

1:37:29 HEALTH AND WELLNESS ACCESS AND

1:37:31 SUPPORTS.

1:37:33 UH GOOD AFTERNOON.

1:37:34 MY NAME IS TOM BYRNE.

1:37:36 I'M AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

1:37:37 AT THE BOSTON COLLEGE SCHOOL

1:37:38 OF SOCIAL WORK.

1:37:42 GOOD AFTERNOON.

1:37:43 THANK YOU.

1:37:43 FOR HAVING US HERE.

1:37:44 UH, MY NAME IS LUCY RAMOS.

1:37:45 I AM THE PRESIDENT CEO

1:37:47 OF FAMILY AID.

1:37:48 UM, AND WE ARE ORGANIZATION

1:37:50 THAT FOCUSES ON PREVENTING, UH,

1:37:51 HOMELESSNESS WHENEVER POSSIBLE,

1:37:53 UH, AND TRYING TO MINIMIZE THE

1:37:55 NEGATIVE IMPACT, UH, WHEN IT'S

1:37:56 NOT UH, SO WE PROVIDE HOMELESS,

1:37:58 UH, SERVICES AS WELL AS.

1:37:59 PREVENTION SERVICES.

1:38:02 UH GOOD AFTERNOON.

1:38:03 UM, HAD EARLIER I'M THE

1:38:04 MANAGING ATTORNEY OF THE

1:38:05 HOUSING UNIT AT THE GREATER

1:38:06 BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES GBS.

1:38:09 HELLO EVERYBODY.

1:38:10 MY NAME IS VINNY SCHMIDT.

1:38:11 I'M A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON

1:38:13 YOUTH ACTION BOARD.

1:38:15 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND

1:38:17 THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK IN THIS

1:38:18 SPACE.

1:38:19 UH, DOES ANYONE HAVE A

1:38:21 PRESENTATION OR REMARKS TO

1:38:22 PROVIDE?

1:38:24 ALL RIGHT.

1:38:25 YEAH, I.

1:38:26 THINK WE ALL DO.

1:38:26 OKAY WELL GO GO GO.

1:38:29 GO FROM.

1:38:30 THE RIGHT TO THE LEFT NOW.

1:38:31 OH, OKAY.

1:38:33 UM, ACTUALLY.

1:38:36 I THINK WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GO

1:38:37 FROM THAT.

1:38:38 OH, OKAY.

1:38:39 YOU GUYS ALREADY HAVE.

1:38:42 OVER HERE.

1:38:44 YEAH.

1:38:44 THERE YOU GO.

1:38:45 ALL RIGHT.

1:38:46 WELL, JUST FLIP THE SCRIPT

1:38:48 HOPEFULLY.

1:38:48 YEAH.

1:38:49 WELL.

1:38:50 FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR

1:38:51 HAVING US AND AND THANK YOU FOR

1:38:53 RAISING THIS REALLY IMPORTANT

1:38:54 ISSUE.

1:38:55 APPRECIATE THE TIME AND

1:38:56 APPRECIATE THE ABILITY TO UM

1:38:58 SHARE SOME INSIGHTS THAT WE

1:39:00 HAVE.

1:39:00 UH, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER MY

1:39:01 NAME IS CHRISTY STAPLES.

1:39:03 UM I'M THE VICE PRESIDENT AT

1:39:05 UNITED WAY AND HERE AT UNITED

1:39:07 WAY WE SEE SAFE AND STABLE

1:39:09 HOUSING AS FOUNDATIONAL TO

1:39:10 THRIVING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES.

1:39:12 UM, THE MOST IMPORTANT LENS

1:39:13 THAT WE COME AT THIS

1:39:15 CONVERSATION THROUGH IS THAT WE

1:39:17 BRING PEOPLE AND PARTNERS

1:39:19 TOGETHER AROUND SOLUTIONS THAT

1:39:20 ARE BIGGER THAN ANY ONE

1:39:21 ORGANIZATION CAN TACKLE ALONE.

1:39:23 SO REALLY WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT

1:39:24 EVERYTHING WE TALKED ABOUT FOR

1:39:25 THE LAST TWO HOURS, IT IS

1:39:27 UNITED WAY BRINGING TOGETHER UM

1:39:29 MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS AND THAT

1:39:31 LIVED EXPERTISE IN THAT

1:39:32 COMMUNITY VOICE THAT'S REALLY

1:39:34 IMPORTANT TO US AND I JUST WANT

1:39:35 TO START OFF WITH THAT.

1:39:37 WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT EVERY

1:39:38 CHILD IN BOSTON DESERVES A SAFE

1:39:40 ,STABLE PLACE TO SLEEP, TO

1:39:42 LEARN, TO GROW AND TO THRIVE.

1:39:44 YET TOO MANY FAMILIES ARE

1:39:46 FACING HOUSING INSTABILITY AS

1:39:47 WE JUST HEARD EARLIER TODAY

1:39:49 ENTERING SHELTER OR TRYING TO

1:39:51 NAVIGATE FRAGMENTED SYSTEMS

1:39:53 DURING THE MOST STRESSFUL

1:39:54 MOMENTS IN THEIR LIVES.

1:39:55 FAMILY HOMELESSNESS IS NOT

1:39:57 INEVITABLE AS WE KNOW IT'S A

1:40:00 SOLVABLE PROBLEM WHEN CITY

1:40:01 STATE PROVIDERS, COMMUNITY

1:40:04 PARTNERS, PEOPLE WITH LIVED

1:40:06 EXPERTISE AND COMMUNITY VOICE

1:40:08 ALIGN TO KEEP FAMILIES HOUSED

1:40:10 AND HELP CHILDREN AND PARENTS

1:40:11 AVOID FURTHER TRAUMA.

1:40:13 WHAT I'D LIKE TO FOCUS ON TODAY

1:40:15 AND WHAT YOU HEARD A LITTLE BIT

1:40:17 ABOUT UM, IN THE EARLIER PANEL

1:40:18 PRESENTATION ARE FOUR AREAS

1:40:20 WHERE WE BELIEVE THIS

1:40:21 CROSS-SECTOR APPROACH CAN MAKE

1:40:23 A DIFFERENCE.

1:40:24 SO FIRST AND WHAT YOU HEARD

1:40:25 FROM COREY AND DANIELLE IS

1:40:27 PREVENTION AND DIVERSION.

1:40:28 MANY FAMILIES ARE LIVING WITH

1:40:30 VERY LITTLE FINANCIAL CUSHION.

1:40:32 ACCORDING TO A RECENT REPORT BY

1:40:34 THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

1:40:35 OF BOSTON, 35% OF HOUSEHOLDS

1:40:38 SURVEYED IN GREATER BOSTON SAID

1:40:40 THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH CASH ON

1:40:41 HAND TO PAY FOR A $400

1:40:44 EMERGENCY EXPENSE.

1:40:45 THAT EMERGENCY EXPENSE CAN

1:40:47 QUICKLY LEAD TO A MISSED RENT

1:40:49 PAYMENT, A NOTICE TO QUIT AND

1:40:51 THEN HOMELESSNESS.

1:40:53 FAMILIES NEED ACCESS TO

1:40:55 FLEXIBLE RESOURCES DEPLOYED

1:40:57 NIMBLY MEDIATION, LEGAL SUPPORT

1:40:59 WE'LL HEAR RENTAL ASSISTANCE

1:41:01 AND PROBLEM SOLVING BEFORE A

1:41:03 FINANCIAL CRISIS BECOMES

1:41:05 HOMELESSNESS.

1:41:05 UNITED WAY IS WORKING WITH

1:41:07 COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO PILOT AND

1:41:08 STRENGTHEN UPSTREAM APPROACHES

1:41:10 .

1:41:10 EHAB AS YOU ALL HEARD EARLIER

1:41:13 UM TO REDUCE EVICTIONS AND HELP

1:41:15 FAMILIES REMAIN HOUSED AND KEEP

1:41:16 KIDS IN SCHOOL, WE'VE LEARNED

1:41:18 THAT EARLIER IDENTIFICATION

1:41:20 OF FAMILIES AT RISK

1:41:21 OF HOMELESSNESS IS NEEDED TO

1:41:22 MAKE PREVENTION PROGRAMS MORE

1:41:24 EFFECTIVE AND THAT THERE ARE

1:41:26 SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS THAT

1:41:27 WORK.

1:41:27 WE HEARD A LITTLE BIT ABOUT

1:41:28 THAT SCHOOL BASED SCREENING

1:41:30 TOOL, WHICH I THINK DOCTOR

1:41:32 BYRNE WILL SPEAK A LITTLE BIT

1:41:33 MORE ABOUT.

1:41:34 WE ENCOURAGE THE COUNCIL TO

1:41:35 CONSIDER HOW BOSTON CAN

1:41:37 STRATEGICALLY INVEST IN

1:41:38 UPSTREAM PREVENTION AND

1:41:39 DIVERSION TO REACH MORE

1:41:41 FAMILIES.

1:41:41 SECOND ISSUE I WANT TO TOUCH

1:41:43 UPON IS THAT WE NEED A MORE

1:41:45 COORDINATED RESPONSE WHEN

1:41:46 FAMILIES DO EXPERIENCE

1:41:47 HOMELESSNESS, THE CRISIS AND

1:41:48 TRAUMA THAT IS HOMELESSNESS.

1:41:50 WHEN FAMILIES NEED SHELTER,

1:41:52 THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE TO

1:41:53 NAVIGATE A MAZE OF DISCONNECTED

1:41:55 SYSTEMS ON THEIR OWN.

1:41:57 RESEARCH ON DPS EARLY

1:41:58 HOMELESSNESS INTERVENTION E

1:42:00 PROGRAM OFFICE OFFERS AN

1:42:01 IMPORTANT EXAMPLE OF WHAT'S

1:42:02 POSSIBLE WHEN SCHOOLS AND

1:42:04 HOUSING PROVIDERS WORK

1:42:06 INTENTIONALLY AROUND THE NEEDS

1:42:07 OF THE WHOLE FAMILY.

1:42:09 AS YOU'LL HEAR FROM TOM AND

1:42:11 LUCIANO FROM FAMILY AID WHO

1:42:12 PARTICIPATED IN THIS PROGRAM.

1:42:15 UM, THE FAMILIES WHO

1:42:16 PARTICIPATED EXPERIENCED

1:42:18 IMPROVED IMPROVEMENTS IN

1:42:19 HOUSING STABILITY, REDUCED

1:42:21 CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM AND

1:42:23 IMPROVED PARENT AND CHILD

1:42:25 WELL-BEING.

1:42:25 THE COUNCIL CAN PLAY AN

1:42:26 IMPORTANT BOSTON CITY

1:42:28 COUNCIL CAN PLAY AN IMPORTANT

1:42:29 ROLE IN ENSURING CONTINUED

1:42:31 FUNDING AS WE HEARD EARLIER, SO

1:42:32 THAT PROMISING MODELS LIKE E

1:42:34 CAN BUILD ON THOSE STRONG

1:42:36 RESULTS.

1:42:37 THIRD AND YOU HEARD THIS FROM

1:42:39 DANIELLE WE NEED TO EXPAND THE

1:42:40 PIPELINE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING

1:42:43 FOR FAMILIES TO REMAIN STABLY

1:42:44 HOUSED AND EXIT A STATE

1:42:46 OF HOMELESSNESS ONCE AND FOR

1:42:47 ALL.

1:42:47 BOSTON MUST INCREASE DEEPLY THE

1:42:49 SUPPLY OF DEEPLY AFFORDABLE

1:42:50 HOUSING.

1:42:51 UNITED WAY IS WORKING TO

1:42:52 ADVANCE INNOVATION LIKE

1:42:54 INNOVATIONS AND FLEXIBLE

1:42:55 FUNDING STRATEGIES TO

1:42:56 ACCELERATE THE PIPELINE

1:42:58 EXPANSION AND CREATE

1:42:59 OPPORTUNITIES FOR MOVING INTO

1:43:00 MARKET RATE HOUSING ALL WHILE

1:43:02 USING A FAMILY CENTERED, TRAUMA

1:43:04 INFORMED ASSESSMENT.

1:43:05 WE KNOW THAT MAJOR CITIES

1:43:06 ACROSS THE UNITED STATES HAVE

1:43:08 UTILIZED THIS MODEL AND IT'S

1:43:10 KNOWN HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS AS

1:43:12 THE FLEX POOL TO GET THE RIGHT

1:43:14 STAKEHOLDERS AROUND THE TABLE,

1:43:16 IDENTIFY PRIORITY POPULATIONS

1:43:17 AND STRATEGICALLY ADMINISTER

1:43:20 RESOURCES.

1:43:21 MORE EFFICIENTLY.

1:43:22 BOSTON HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO

1:43:24 IMPLEMENT THESE FUNDING

1:43:25 STRATEGIES AND CAN IDENTIFY

1:43:26 WHERE RESOURCES AND BARRIERS

1:43:28 EXIST AND CREATE MORE PATHWAYS

1:43:30 TO SUPPORTIVE.

1:43:31 HOUSING AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING

1:43:32 .

1:43:32 AND FOURTH AND LAST, UH, I

1:43:34 WOULD RECOMMEND UNITED WAY OUR

1:43:36 FAMILIES OUR COMMUNITY BASED

1:43:38 PARTNERS WOULD RECOMMEND THAT

1:43:39 THERE'S A TREMENDOUS NEED TO

1:43:41 STRENGTHEN ACCESS TO ALL SOCIAL

1:43:42 DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH THAT

1:43:43 FAMILIES NEED TO THRIVE.

1:43:45 THEY NEED ACCESS FAMILIES NEED

1:43:47 ACCESS TO CHILDCARE, EDUCATION,

1:43:48 HEALTH CARE, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

1:43:50 SUPPORT SERVICES, EMPLOYMENT

1:43:52 PATHWAYS AND CULTURALLY

1:43:54 RESPONSIVE SERVICES THAT HELP

1:43:55 BUILD STABILITY AND CREATE

1:43:57 OPPORTUNITY.

1:43:58 THAT'S WHY WE'RE ALSO BUILDING

1:44:00 A HOUSING STABILITY AND

1:44:01 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE

1:44:03 UNITED WAY AND PARTNERS WITH

1:44:05 MAJOR HEALTH SYSTEMS COMMUNITY

1:44:06 HEALTH CENTERS, MASSHEALTH ACOS

1:44:08 AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT

1:44:10 WERE BETTER CONNECT SCREENING,

1:44:11 REFERRALS AND NAVIGATION

1:44:12 OF THOSE SYSTEMS.

1:44:14 WE KNOW THAT THE INTERVENTIONS

1:44:16 WORK.

1:44:16 WE'VE HEARD IT TODAY.

1:44:18 WE KNOW THAT THE STRATEGIES

1:44:18 THAT LEAD TO BETTER OUTCOMES

1:44:20 FOR INDIVIDUALS, CHILDREN AND

1:44:21 FAMILIES ALSO EXIST.

1:44:24 WE NEED TO SCALE AND SUSTAIN

1:44:25 THEM TO REACH MORE PEOPLE.

1:44:29 UNITED WAY STANDS READY TO

1:44:30 PARTNER WITH THE CITY

1:44:31 COUNCIL TO STAND UP THESE

1:44:32 STRATEGIES, AND WE BELIEVE THAT

1:44:33 WE CAN DO MORE THAN ANY SINGLE

1:44:34 AGENCY CAN DO ALONE.

1:44:36 THAT IS THE POWER OF OUR

1:44:37 NETWORK AND OUR ABILITY TO

1:44:38 BRING ALL THE COMPONENTS

1:44:41 TOGETHER.

1:44:41 THANK YOU.

1:44:47 GO AHEAD, GO AHEAD.

1:44:50 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:44:51 SO AS I SAID WHEN I INTRODUCE

1:44:53 MYSELF AGAIN MY NAME IS DOCTOR

1:44:55 BRANDI BROOKS.

1:44:56 I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

1:44:58 OF BOSTON'S HIGHER GROUND AND I

1:45:01 AM THANKFUL TO BE HERE TODAY.

1:45:03 THANK YOU TO THE CITY

1:45:04 COUNCIL FOR INVITING US.

1:45:06 THANK YOU TO MY FELLOW

1:45:07 PANELISTS.

1:45:08 UM, AND THANK YOU TO THOSE AT

1:45:10 HOME THAT MAY BE.

1:45:12 WATCHING TODAY'S TESTIMONY.

1:45:14 UM.

1:45:16 I WANT TO BEGIN FIRST NOT AS

1:45:19 THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.

1:45:21 OF HIGHER GROUND.

1:45:22 I WANT TO START FIRST AS

1:45:24 SOMEONE WHO WHEN I WAS A CHILD

1:45:29 I EXPERIENCED HOMELESSNESS.

1:45:30 MY FAMILY EXPERIENCED

1:45:32 HOMELESSNESS.

1:45:34 SO I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE

1:45:37 WHEN YOU ARE.

1:45:38 UNSURE OF THE PLACE YOU ARE

1:45:40 STAYING AT.

1:45:41 TODAY WILL BE THE SAME PLACE

1:45:43 TOMORROW.

1:45:46 I REMEMBER VIVIDLY THE SHAME

1:45:48 AND STIGMA OF NOT WANTING TO

1:45:51 SHARE WITH MY PEERS THAT.

1:45:53 WE WERE UNHOUSED AND EVEN ONCE

1:45:56 MY FAMILY AND I WE GOT THE KEYS

1:46:00 TO OUR HOME WE STILL NEEDED

1:46:02 SUPPORT AFTER THEN TO MAKE SURE

1:46:05 WE STAYED STABLY HOUSED.

1:46:08 THAT EXPERIENCE STAYS WITH

1:46:11 ME EVEN TODAY AS I SPEAK BEFORE

1:46:14 YOU.

1:46:16 THAT'S WHY THIS CONVERSATION IT

1:46:18 CAN'T JUST BE ABOUT HOW DO WE

1:46:21 HOUSE.

1:46:21 STUDENTS AND FAMILIES.

1:46:23 IT HAS TO BE ABOUT AS CHRISTY

1:46:25 SAID, HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THEY

1:46:28 STAY STABLY HOUSED THROUGH

1:46:32 HIGHER GROUNDS FAMILY LED

1:46:34 STABILITY INITIATIVE WE HAVE.

1:46:36 HOUSED MORE THAN 650 HOMELESS

1:46:40 STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND

1:46:42 WE'RE PROUD OF THE FACT.

1:46:44 THAT FROM.

1:46:45 REFERRAL TO HOUSING OVER THE

1:46:47 LAST TWO YEARS WE'VE AVERAGED

1:46:50 11 MONTHS.

1:46:51 SO ONCE THE FAMILIES REFERRED

1:46:53 TO US WE'RE ABLE TO GET THEM

1:46:55 HOUSED IN 11 MONTHS.

1:46:57 AT THE SAME TIME I'M REMINDED

1:47:00 THAT 11 MONTHS IS A SCHOOL YEAR

1:47:04 FOR A CHILD TO NOT KNOW.

1:47:07 WHETHER THEY WILL HAVE A SAFE

1:47:08 SPACE TO SLEEP AND AT THE SAME

1:47:11 TIME I'M REMINDED WHILE WE'VE

1:47:14 BEEN ABLE TO HOUSE FAMILIES 650

1:47:16 STUDENTS AND FAMILIES WHEN WE

1:47:19 FOLLOW UP WITH THEM BECAUSE

1:47:20 STABILITY IS VERY IMPORTANT TO

1:47:21 US, WE FIND THAT 80% OF THOSE

1:47:24 FAMILIES ARE STILL STABLY

1:47:26 HOUSED SO THERE IS STILL WORK

1:47:29 WE NEED TO DO WITH THAT 20%.

1:47:33 BUT I KNOW AND I STAND BEFORE

1:47:35 YOU AS KNOWING SYSTEMS DO

1:47:39 CHANGE THE PROCESS.

1:47:41 COREY SPOKE ABOUT THAT.

1:47:43 DANIELLE SPOKE ABOUT THAT

1:47:44 EARLIER.

1:47:45 CHRISTY REMARKED ON THAT AND

1:47:47 YOU'VE HEARD SEVERAL TIMES

1:47:49 TODAY ABOUT THE E HELP PROGRAM

1:47:52 .

1:47:52 WELL, ADMINISTRATOR BOSTON

1:47:55 HOUSING AUTHORITY ADMINISTRATOR

1:47:56 KENZIE BOK SHE SHARED WITH US

1:47:59 THAT THE REASON WHY BOSTON

1:48:01 HOUSING AUTHORITY GOT INVOLVED

1:48:03 IN THAT PROGRAM WAS THROUGH

1:48:05 THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH HIGHER

1:48:07 GROUNDS FAMILY LED STABILITY

1:48:09 INITIATIVE.

1:48:10 IT WAS THROUGH THAT EXPERIENCE

1:48:11 THAT BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY

1:48:12 SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT WE DO NEED

1:48:15 TO PRIORITIZE HOMELESS STUDENTS

1:48:16 AND FAMILIES.

1:48:17 WE DO NEED TO ALLOCATE

1:48:19 VOUCHERS.

1:48:19 AND THAT LED TO HUNDREDS

1:48:23 OF FAMILIES THROUGHOUT BOSTON

1:48:24 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM GETTING

1:48:26 HOUSED AND BEING ABLE TO STAY

1:48:28 HOUSED.

1:48:31 BUT AGAIN, AS I SAY AND I WILL

1:48:34 REITERATE MANY TIMES BEING

1:48:36 HOUSED IS BUT ONE STEP.

1:48:39 WE DO NEED TO FOCUS ON

1:48:41 STABILITY BECAUSE BEHIND THOSE

1:48:45 NUMBERS ARE GRANDPARENTS TAKING

1:48:48 CARE OF GRANDKIDS.

1:48:49 IT IS SINGLE MOTHERS THAT ARE

1:48:52 FLEEING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND

1:48:54 HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

1:48:55 IT IS VETERANS THAT COME TO US.

1:48:58 IT IS UNACCOMPANIED YOUNG

1:49:00 ADULTS THIS YEAR AS YOUNG AS 15

1:49:03 THAT ARE BEING REFERRED TO US

1:49:05 AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN AND

1:49:09 THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO.

1:49:12 AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THE NUMBERS

1:49:14 AND ON YOUR SCREEN AND PROVIDE

1:49:16 IT TO THE COUNSELORS UM THIS IS

1:49:19 WHY WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO

1:49:20 FOCUS ON.

1:49:21 THIS WORK.

1:49:22 IN THE LAST SCHOOL YEAR ENDING

1:49:25 IN JUNE, BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

1:49:29 SAW THEIR HOMELESS NUMBER

1:49:31 AROUND 4300.

1:49:34 WHAT THAT MEANS IS 10%

1:49:37 OF STUDENTS IN OUR HOMELESS AND

1:49:42 ONE THING WE KNOW LOOKING AT

1:49:44 THE NUMBERS ACROSS THE STATE IS

1:49:46 THAT BOSTON DISPROPORTIONATELY

1:49:50 HAS THE GREATEST NUMBER

1:49:52 OF HOMELESS STUDENTS.

1:49:54 UM, AS OF LAST SCHOOL YEAR IT

1:49:56 WAS 16% 16% OF ALL STUDENTS IN

1:50:02 THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS THAT

1:50:04 ARE HOMELESS ARE IN BOSTON.

1:50:07 LET ME PUT THIS ANOTHER WAY.

1:50:12 1 IN 6 1 IN 6 STUDENTS THAT ARE

1:50:15 HOMELESS IN OUR STATE ARE

1:50:18 ATTENDING BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL

1:50:19 SYSTEM RIGHT NOW TODAY.

1:50:22 AND SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SOME

1:50:25 OF THE SOLUTIONS WHICH WERE

1:50:26 MENTIONED EARLIER, THE RESPONSE

1:50:30 NEEDS TO RISE TO THE SCALE

1:50:31 OF THE PROBLEM.

1:50:33 AND SO WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO?

1:50:36 FIRST WE NEED MORE VOUCHERS FOR

1:50:42 FAMILIES.

1:50:43 THEIR INCOME SUPPLY SIMPLY

1:50:46 CANNOT COMPETE WITH THE COST

1:50:49 OF HOUSING IN BOSTON.

1:50:50 VOUCHERS HELP FILL THAT GAP.

1:50:54 SECOND WE NEED MORE INVESTMENT

1:50:58 IN PREVENTION RENTAL ASSISTANCE

1:51:02 LEGAL REPRESENTATION AS YOU'LL

1:51:03 HEAR MORE ABOUT LATER AND

1:51:06 FLEXIBLE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE

1:51:08 FOR OUR FAMILIES.

1:51:11 THIRD, WE MUST CONTINUE TO

1:51:13 SUSTAIN THE BRIDGE AND

1:51:16 COLLABORATION BETWEEN

1:51:18 ORGANIZATIONS LIKE OURS LIKE

1:51:19 FAMILY AID LIKE UNITED WAY THAT

1:51:22 COLLABORATE AND CONNECT WITH

1:51:24 THE SCHOOLS, WITH THE LIAISONS

1:51:26 WITH THE DEANS, WITH THE SCHOOL

1:51:29 NURSES OR WHOMEVER ELSE MAY BE

1:51:31 THE REFERRAL SOURCE.

1:51:33 THIS SYSTEM WORKS.

1:51:35 WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO INVEST

1:51:37 IN IT.

1:51:41 AND LAST WE NEED TO INVEST IN

1:51:45 WHAT HAPPENS AFTER A FAMILY

1:51:48 GETS KEYS.

1:51:51 CHILDREN STILL NEED ACADEMIC

1:51:54 MENTORING, TRANSPORTATION.

1:51:57 MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS

1:51:59 SUPPORTS AND MANY OTHER THINGS

1:52:01 TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY REMAIN

1:52:05 STABLE.

1:52:06 PARENTS MAY NEED EMPLOYMENT

1:52:09 SUPPORT.

1:52:09 THEY MAY NEED CHILDCARE

1:52:12 BENEFITS ASSISTANCE OR

1:52:14 FINANCIAL COACHING.

1:52:16 AND ONE THING I DO WANT TO

1:52:19 STRESS IS WE CANNOT JUST ASK

1:52:22 OUR SCHOOLS TO SOLVE ALL

1:52:26 PROBLEMS BECAUSE WHEN WE LOOK

1:52:30 AT HOUSING AND FAMILY

1:52:32 INSTABILITY THERE ARE SO MANY

1:52:35 THINGS THAT INVOLVE IT.

1:52:36 AND SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT

1:52:38 WE HAVE THAT COORDINATED

1:52:40 RESPONSE.

1:52:41 AND SO I'LL CLOSE WITH THIS.

1:52:44 HIGHER GROUND WAS FOUNDED 16

1:52:46 YEARS AGO WITH A SIMPLE

1:52:49 QUESTION WHAT DO YOU NEED AND

1:52:52 WHAT CAN WE DO?

1:52:54 AND SO WHAT DO OUR FAMILIES

1:52:57 NEED?

1:52:58 HOW CAN WE HELP THEM?

1:53:02 EVERY CHILD IN THE CITY

1:53:05 OF BOSTON THAT IS EXPERIENCING

1:53:06 HOMELESSNESS NEEDS THAT VILLAGE

1:53:09 THAT SAYS TO THEM WE SEE YOU.

1:53:14 YOU DON'T HAVE TO NAVIGATE THIS

1:53:15 ALONE.

1:53:16 THERE IS FAMILY AID.

1:53:18 THERE IS UNITED WAY.

1:53:19 THERE IS HIGHER GROUND.

1:53:21 THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER

1:53:23 ORGANIZATIONS.

1:53:24 AND WE WILL STAY ALONGSIDE YOU

1:53:28 NOT ONLY AS YOU FIND A HOME BUT

1:53:31 UNTIL YOU GET TO A SPACE AND A

1:53:33 PLACE WHERE YOU ARE THRIVING.

1:53:37 AGAIN, I KNOW THIS EXPERIENCE

1:53:40 FIRSTHAND.

1:53:41 AND I AM SO GRATEFUL AND

1:53:43 THANKFUL FOR BEING SUPPORTED

1:53:46 AND HAVING FOLKS WRAP AROUND

1:53:48 ME.

1:53:49 SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY BASED

1:53:51 PARTNERS.

1:53:52 AND SO I THANK YOU FOR INVITING

1:53:55 US.

1:53:56 AND I DO WANT TO CLOSE WITH

1:53:57 THIS IS IF WE TRULY WANT TO

1:53:59 BREAK THE CYCLE OF BEING

1:54:02 UNHOUSED, WE REALLY HAVE TO

1:54:04 LOOK AT ISSUES THAT GO BEYOND

1:54:09 JUST GETTING A KEY.

1:54:11 THE KEY IS THE FIRST THAT.

1:54:13 BUT WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT HOW

1:54:15 DO WE MAKE SURE FAMILIES AND

1:54:16 STUDENTS REMAIN STABLE AFTER

1:54:18 THAT.

1:54:20 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:54:24 I'LL BE OVER A LITTLE BIT HERE.

1:54:27 GOOD AFTERNOON.

1:54:28 UH, AS I MENTIONED, MY NAME IS

1:54:29 TOM BYRNE.

1:54:30 I'M AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT

1:54:31 THE BOSTON COLLEGE SCHOOL

1:54:32 OF SOCIAL WORK.

1:54:33 UH, DISTRICT SIX RESIDENT AND A

1:54:35 FORMER BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL

1:54:37 STUDENT MYSELF.

1:54:38 UH, THANK YOU TO THE

1:54:40 COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR THE

1:54:40 OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH YOU

1:54:41 TODAY.

1:54:43 MY RESEARCH AT BOSTON COLLEGE

1:54:44 FOCUSES BROADLY ON THE CAUSES,

1:54:46 CONSEQUENCES AND POLICY

1:54:48 SOLUTIONS TO HOMELESSNESS AND

1:54:49 HOUSING INSECURITY.

1:54:50 I'VE BEEN DOING APPLIED

1:54:51 RESEARCH ON THESE TOPICS FOR

1:54:53 NEARLY TWO DECADES.

1:54:55 TODAY I WANT TO SHARE WHAT

1:54:56 EXISTING RESEARCH TELLS US

1:54:57 ABOUT TWO THINGS.

1:54:58 FIRST, HOW HOMELESSNESS

1:55:00 NEGATIVELY AFFECTS CHILDREN'S

1:55:02 EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES AND

1:55:03 WELL-BEING.

1:55:04 AND SECOND, WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS

1:55:06 TO HELP FAMILIES AND CHILDREN

1:55:07 AT HIGH RISK OF HOMELESSNESS

1:55:09 AND CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING

1:55:10 HOMELESSNESS.

1:55:11 FIRST, THE EVIDENCE IS CRYSTAL

1:55:14 CLEAR THAT HOMELESSNESS AND

1:55:15 HOUSING INSECURITY CREATE

1:55:16 SUBSTANTIAL BARRIERS TO

1:55:19 CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS

1:55:20 AND BROADER WELL-BEING.

1:55:22 WE HEARD SOME OF THIS EVIDENCE

1:55:24 EARLIER BUT I'LL REITERATED

1:55:25 HERE.

1:55:26 STUDIES CONDUCTED THROUGHOUT

1:55:27 THE COUNTRY CONSISTENTLY LINK

1:55:30 HOMELESSNESS WITH HIGHER RATES

1:55:31 OF ABSENTEEISM, INCREASED

1:55:32 SCHOOL MOBILITY AND LOWER

1:55:34 PERFORMANCE IN MATH AND READING

1:55:35 .

1:55:36 HOMELESS STUDENTS ALSO HAVE

1:55:37 LOWER RATES OF HIGH SCHOOL

1:55:39 GRADUATION AND COLLEGE

1:55:40 ATTENDANCE.

1:55:41 THESE TRENDS ARE APPARENT IN

1:55:43 THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS

1:55:44 WELL WITH DATA FROM THE

1:55:45 MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT

1:55:47 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY

1:55:49 EDUCATION SHOWING THAT BOSTON

1:55:50 PUBLIC SCHOOL 10TH GRADERS

1:55:52 EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS WERE

1:55:53 LESS LIKELY TO MEET

1:55:55 EXPECTATIONS ON MIXED EXAMS

1:55:57 THAN THEIR LOW INCOME HOUSING

1:55:59 COUNTERPARTS.

1:56:00 HOMELESSNESS IS ALSO ASSOCIATED

1:56:02 WITH ADVERSE PHYSICAL AND

1:56:03 MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES AMONG

1:56:05 CHILDREN IN SOME, ALTHOUGH MANY

1:56:08 STUDENTS EXPERIENCING

1:56:09 HOMELESSNESS CAN AND DO SUCCEED

1:56:11 ACADEMICALLY, THEY FACE

1:56:13 SUBSTANTIALLY GREATER OBSTACLES

1:56:14 TO DOING SO THAN THEIR HOUSED

1:56:16 COUNTERPARTS.

1:56:17 SECOND, RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT

1:56:19 HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION

1:56:21 PROGRAMS HOLD GREAT POTENTIAL

1:56:22 FOR HELPING FAMILIES MAINTAIN

1:56:24 STABLE HOUSING AND IMPROVING

1:56:25 CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES

1:56:27 AND WELL-BEING.

1:56:28 ONE INCREASINGLY PROMINENT

1:56:30 APPROACH NATIONWIDE INVOLVES

1:56:32 FORMAL PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN

1:56:33 SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND HOUSING

1:56:34 AGENCIES TO MEET THE HOUSING

1:56:36 AND EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

1:56:37 OF HOUSING UNSTABLE CHILDREN.

1:56:38 THE PROGRAM, WHICH FOLKS HAVE

1:56:40 ALREADY HEARD ABOUT TODAY, IS

1:56:42 ONE SUCH PROGRAM AND RECOGNIZES

1:56:45 IT'S RECOGNIZING ITS UNIQUE

1:56:47 APPROACH.

1:56:47 A RECENT REPORT BY RESEARCHERS

1:56:49 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN

1:56:50 CALIFORNIA HIGHLIGHTED EHAB AS

1:56:52 AN INNOVATIVE EXAMPLE OF A

1:56:54 SCHOOL HOUSING PARTNERSHIP.

1:56:55 TOGETHER WITH MY BOSTON COLLEGE

1:56:58 COLLEAGUES AND IN PARTNERSHIP

1:56:59 WITH THE UNITED WAY.

1:57:01 WE COLLABORATED WITH BOTH DPS

1:57:02 AND FAMILY AID TO CONDUCT A

1:57:04 MULTI-YEAR STUDY OF THE PROGRAM

1:57:06 .

1:57:07 OUR FINAL REPORT FROM THIS

1:57:08 STUDY, WHICH COUNCILOR WEBER

1:57:10 MENTIONED EARLIER, WAS

1:57:11 PUBLISHED IN APRIL OF THIS YEAR

1:57:13 ,IDENTIFIED SEVERAL IMPORTANT

1:57:15 FINDINGS, SOME OF WHICH HAVE

1:57:17 BEEN SHARED ALREADY.

1:57:18 BUT I'LL TRY AND REITERATE THE

1:57:19 KEY FINDINGS FROM OUR

1:57:20 PERSPECTIVE HERE.

1:57:23 FIRST WE FOUND THAT E HIP

1:57:25 FAMILIES EXPERIENCED INCREASES

1:57:27 IN HOUSING STABILITY AND

1:57:28 HOUSING QUALITY OVER TIME.

1:57:30 THE SHARE OF HIP FAMILIES

1:57:32 LIVING IN THEIR OWN HOUSING

1:57:33 INCREASED FROM 49% TO 84% OVER

1:57:36 A TWO YEAR PERIOD AND FAMILIES

1:57:38 REPORTED SIGNIFICANTLY FEWER

1:57:39 HOUSING QUALITY PROBLEMS.

1:57:41 SECOND, PARENTAL WELL-BEING

1:57:44 IMPROVED OVER TIME TWO YEARS

1:57:46 AFTER REFERRAL TO MORE PARENTS

1:57:48 ,REPEATED GOOD PHYSICAL HEALTH

1:57:51 AND HIGH PSYCHOLOGICAL

1:57:52 WELL-BEING WHILE ANXIETY AND

1:57:54 DEPRESSION SYMPTOMS DECLINED.

1:57:57 THIRD, FOR EB CHILDREN, WE

1:57:59 IDENTIFIED SOME PROMISING

1:58:00 IMPROVEMENTS IN SELECTED

1:58:01 LEARNING BEHAVIORS AND

1:58:03 REDUCTIONS IN EMOTIONAL

1:58:04 DISTRESS.

1:58:05 FOURTH, WE FOUND SIGNIFICANT

1:58:08 IMPROVEMENTS IN SCHOOL

1:58:09 ATTENDANCE.

1:58:10 THE RATE OF CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM

1:58:12 AMONG E HIP CHILDREN DECLINED

1:58:14 FROM 61% TO 52%.

1:58:17 WE ALSO FOUND THAT STUDENTS

1:58:18 REFERRED TO HIP IN ONE SCHOOL

1:58:20 YEAR HAD A FIVE PERCENTAGE

1:58:21 POINT INCREASE IN THEIR

1:58:23 ATTENDANCE RATE IN THE

1:58:23 FOLLOWING SCHOOL YEAR RELATIVE

1:58:25 TO A COMPARISON GROUP

1:58:26 OF STUDENTS IDENTIFIED AS AT

1:58:28 RISK OF HOMELESSNESS WHO WERE

1:58:29 NOT REFERRED TO HIP.

1:58:31 THIS EQUATES TO NINE ADDITIONAL

1:58:33 DAYS OF ATTENDANCE IN AN

1:58:34 ACADEMIC YEAR FOR E HIP

1:58:36 STUDENTS.

1:58:38 FINALLY, AS HAS BEEN MENTIONED

1:58:41 UM ONE LAST THING THAT WE

1:58:42 IDENTIFIED WAS UH AS

1:58:44 COUNCILOR WEBER MENTIONED OUR

1:58:46 STUDY SURFACE CHALLENGES AND

1:58:47 IDENTIFYING STUDENTS AT RISK

1:58:49 OF HOMELESSNESS.

1:58:50 AND IN FOLLOWING UP ON THAT

1:58:52 FINDING OUR TEAM HAS BEEN DOING

1:58:53 SOME ADDITIONAL WORK UM,

1:58:55 TALKING TO HOMELESS LIAISONS

1:58:57 AND DEVELOPING AND PILOT

1:58:59 TESTING, UH, A SERIES

1:59:01 OF QUESTIONS THAT COULD

1:59:02 THEORETICALLY BE INCLUDED IN A

1:59:04 SCREENING TOOL TO IDENTIFY

1:59:05 STUDENTS AT RISK

1:59:06 OF HOMELESSNESS, WHICH I'M

1:59:07 HAPPY TO TALK MORE ABOUT.

1:59:09 SO IN CLOSING, OUR STUDY

1:59:11 FINDINGS ARE ENCOURAGING.

1:59:12 THEY SUGGEST THAT SCHOOL

1:59:14 HOUSING PARTNERSHIPS LIKE HIP

1:59:16 MAY HELP IMPROVE HOUSING

1:59:17 STABILITY AND SUPPORT STUDENTS

1:59:19 ACADEMIC SUCCESS.

1:59:22 UM WHILE MORE RESEARCH ON THE

1:59:24 IMPACT OF THESE TYPES

1:59:25 OF PROGRAMS IS NEEDED, OUR

1:59:26 FINDINGS ARE CONSISTENT WITH A

1:59:28 BROADER BODY OF RESEARCH

1:59:29 DEMONSTRATING THAT PROVIDING

1:59:30 FAMILIES EXPERIENCING

1:59:31 HOMELESSNESS WITH SAFE,

1:59:33 AFFORDABLE AND STABLE HOUSING

1:59:34 IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO

1:59:36 SUPPORT THEIR HOUSING

1:59:37 STABILITY, EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS

1:59:39 AND BROADER WELL-BEING.

1:59:41 E HIP IS ONE PROMISING PATHWAY

1:59:43 FOR HELPING FAMILIES, BUT WE

1:59:44 NEED TO INVEST IN OTHER

1:59:45 SOLUTIONS AS WELL, SUCH AS

1:59:47 EXPANDING THE AVAILABILITY

1:59:48 OF LONG TERM RENTAL ASSISTANCE

1:59:50 PROGRAMS, INCREASING THE SUPPLY

1:59:51 OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND

1:59:53 ENSURING THAT ONCE HOUSED

1:59:55 FAMILIES HAVE THE SUPPORT THEY

1:59:56 NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL OVER THE

1:59:57 LONG TERM.

1:59:58 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND I

2:00:00 LOOK FORWARD TO ANY QUESTIONS

2:00:01 YOU MIGHT HAVE.

2:00:06 GOOD AFTERNOON.

2:00:07 UH, AGAIN LUCIANO.

2:00:08 RAMOS UH, WITH FAMILY AID.

2:00:10 UM, WE ARE UH, 110 YEAR OLD

2:00:14 ORGANIZATION THAT WAS

2:00:15 ORIGINALLY ESTABLISHED AS

2:00:17 TRAVELER'S AID UM, HELPING TO

2:00:19 UH, RECENT IMMIGRANTS AND

2:00:21 MIGRANTS WHO ARE COMING TO THE

2:00:22 COUNTRY TO GET SETTLED IN.

2:00:24 UH, WE EXPERIENCED A NUMBER

2:00:26 OF UH, BOOMS UM, OVER OUR

2:00:28 LIFETIME, UH, WHICH ALSO

2:00:30 INCLUDED THE GREAT MIGRATION

2:00:31 UM, UH, FAMILIES MOVING FROM

2:00:33 JIM CROW SOUTH UP TO THE NORTH.

2:00:35 UH, AS WELL AS UH YOU KNOW, ALL

2:00:37 THE WAVES OF IMMIGRATION THAT

2:00:38 THE CITY OF BOSTON HAS

2:00:39 WELCOMED.

2:00:40 UM, UM, AROUND THE 70S OR 80S.

2:00:43 UH, WE DID PIVOT OUR WORK, UH,

2:00:46 TO START FOCUSING IN ON HOUSING

2:00:47 BECAUSE WHAT WE REALIZED WAS

2:00:48 THAT IT WAS ONE OF THE NUMBER

2:00:50 ONE ISSUES, UM, THAT WAS, UH,

2:00:52 CHALLENGING FAMILIES FROM

2:00:53 GETTING SETTLED IN THEIR

2:00:54 COMMUNITIES AND BUILDING

2:00:55 PROSPEROUS LIVES.

2:00:56 UM, AND SO ABOUT FAMILY AID.

2:00:59 OUR MISSION REALLY IS TO WORK

2:01:00 WITH FAMILIES, UH, PARENTS AND

2:01:02 CAREGIVERS TO WHO ARE FACING

2:01:04 HOMELESSNESS, UM, AND HELP THEM

2:01:06 SECURE AND SUSTAIN HOUSING, UH,

2:01:08 WHILE ALSO BUILDING STRONG

2:01:10 FOUNDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE.

2:01:11 UM, AS YOU'VE HEARD A LOT

2:01:14 OF DATA ALREADY AND I'VE BEEN

2:01:15 TRYING TO UH, EDIT MY MY

2:01:16 PRESENTATION UH, A BIT.

2:01:18 UM, UH, YOU KNOW, BOSTON HAS

2:01:20 THE THIRD HIGHEST NUMBER

2:01:21 OF HOMELESS CHILDREN, UM, AND

2:01:23 PARENTS IN THE COUNTRY.

2:01:24 UM, WE KNOW THAT, UH, THE

2:01:27 MOMENT A CHILD EXPERIENCES

2:01:28 HOMELESSNESS, IT REROUTES THEIR

2:01:29 ENTIRE TRAJECTORY, RIGHT?

2:01:31 UM, AND, UH AND DESPITE THIS,

2:01:33 UH, MOST HOMELESS INTERVENTIONS

2:01:35 TODAY ARE REACTIVE OR THEY'RE

2:01:37 DESIGNED FOR ADULTS, RIGHT?

2:01:39 UM, YOU KNOW, AND UM, OUR

2:01:41 APPROACH REALLY DOES FOCUS

2:01:43 HEAVILY ON PREVENTATIVE CARE

2:01:44 AND SUPPORT.

2:01:45 UM, AND WE ARE DESIGNED FOR

2:01:47 CHILDREN.

2:01:47 UM, YOU KNOW, REALLY FOCUSING

2:01:49 IN ON HOW CAN WE SUPPORT BOTH

2:01:52 GENERATIONS.

2:01:52 UM, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT WE

2:01:54 TAKE THEM.

2:01:55 UH, WE HELP PREVENT

2:01:56 HOMELESSNESS WHENEVER WE

2:01:57 POSSIBLY CAN.

2:01:58 UH, BUT WHEN HOMELESSNESS

2:01:59 STRIKES, WE TAKE THEM FROM

2:02:00 CRISIS TO STABILITY.

2:02:02 UH, WE REALLY HAVE A TRAUMA

2:02:04 INFORMED APPROACH IN WHICH THE

2:02:05 FAMILY IS IN CONTROL.

2:02:06 THEY'RE THE ONES TELLING US

2:02:07 WHAT IT IS THAT THEY NEED.

2:02:08 AND WE BRING THE EXPERTISE AND

2:02:10 THE PARTNERS TO THE TABLE, UH,

2:02:12 TO TRY TO RESPOND.

2:02:13 RIGHT.

2:02:13 UM, AND SO UM, WE REALLY DO

2:02:17 FOCUS AND HAVE OVER THE PAST

2:02:19 FEW YEARS UM, AND UH, FOCUSING

2:02:21 ON SELF-SUFFICIENCY BECAUSE THE

2:02:22 OLD MODELS JUST HAVEN'T WORKED.

2:02:24 UM, YOU KNOW, AND UM, SO

2:02:27 SELF-SUFFICIENCY, HOUSING

2:02:28 STABILITY, HOUSING PLACEMENT

2:02:29 AND NEW HOUSING RETENTION UM,

2:02:31 OUR RETENTION RATE.

2:02:32 UM, WHEN WE'RE ABLE TO HELP

2:02:34 FAMILIES, UH, GET INTO HOUSING

2:02:35 IS AROUND 88% UH, COMPARED TO

2:02:38 NATIONALLY, UH, IT HOVERS

2:02:41 BETWEEN 59 AND 85%.

2:02:42 UM AND UM AND OUR HOUSING

2:02:45 PLACEMENT RATE IS ACTUALLY

2:02:46 AROUND 63%, UH, WHICH MOST

2:02:48 ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE

2:02:49 COUNTRY ARE OUR PEERS IF YOU

2:02:50 WOULD UM, UH, CALL 25% SUCCESS

2:02:53 .

2:02:54 SO UH SO SO WE HAVE A PRETTY

2:02:56 GOOD TRACK RECORD.

2:02:56 WE'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF GOOD

2:02:58 WORK.

2:02:58 OUR TWO GEN STRATEGY FOCUSES IN

2:03:00 NOT JUST ON HOUSING UM, AND

2:03:02 PREVENTION.

2:03:03 UH, BUT WHEN WE MEET THE

2:03:05 FAMILIES, UH, WE'RE ACTUALLY

2:03:06 TRYING TO HELP THEM BUILD THEIR

2:03:07 SOCIAL CAPITAL.

2:03:08 UH, WE'RE HELPING THEM, UM, GET

2:03:10 CONNECTED TO HEALTH AND

2:03:11 WELL-BEING SERVICES, UM, BUILD

2:03:13 THEIR ECONOMIC ASSETS, UM, AS

2:03:16 WELL AS, UH, FIND OUR MAP OUT

2:03:18 THEIR OWN PATH, UH, TO ECONOMIC

2:03:21 MOBILITY THROUGH EDUCATION.

2:03:22 UM, AND EDUCATION PARTNERS.

2:03:25 UM, AND SO WE ARE THE LARGEST

2:03:26 PROVIDER OF COMPREHENSIVE

2:03:27 SERVICES SOLELY FOCUSED ON

2:03:29 HOMELESS CHILDREN AND PARENTS.

2:03:30 UM, UH, IN MASSACHUSETTS.

2:03:32 UM, AND UH WE PROVIDE

2:03:34 EVERYTHING FROM PREVENTION AND

2:03:36 DIVERSION TO EMERGENCY SHELTER

2:03:38 ,UH, HOUSING SEARCH AND

2:03:39 PLACEMENT, HOUSING

2:03:41 STABILIZATION, WRAPAROUND CASE

2:03:42 MANAGEMENT SERVICE NAVIGATION,

2:03:43 RAPID REHOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE

2:03:45 HOUSING AS WELL.

2:03:46 UM, LAST YEAR WE SERVED OVER UH

2:03:49 5000 UM, UH, CHILDREN AND THEIR

2:03:51 PARENTS.

2:03:52 UM, BUT WHO OUR FAMILIES ARE.

2:03:54 YOU KNOW, THE AVERAGE SIZE

2:03:55 ABOUT THREE PEOPLE.

2:03:56 90% ARE PEOPLE OF COLOR, 75%

2:03:58 ARE LED BY SINGLE MOTHERS.

2:04:00 UH, AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD INCOMES

2:04:02 AROUND 13,500 A YEAR.

2:04:05 UH, WE HAVE 65% OF ALL OF OUR

2:04:07 CLIENTS ACTUALLY BEING CHILDREN

2:04:08 UNDER THE AGE OF 18.

2:04:10 UM, 45% ARE ILLEGAL ENTRANTS

2:04:12 AND NEW ARRIVALS.

2:04:14 AND YOU KNOW, THESE ARE THE

2:04:17 NUMBERS AND WE'VE HEARD THE

2:04:18 STATISTICS RIGHT.

2:04:18 AND UM AND I'M ACTUALLY IN DAY

2:04:21 29 OF MY JOB.

2:04:22 UH, SO RELATIVELY NEW UH,

2:04:24 PRESIDENT AND CEO.

2:04:26 UM, YOU KNOW.

2:04:27 AND AND UH BUT TO HELP LIKE

2:04:28 PAINT A BIT OF A PICTURE AROUND

2:04:30 THIS ON MY SECOND WEEK ON THE

2:04:32 JOB, UM, I WAS HEADING INTO THE

2:04:34 OFFICE AROUND 830.

2:04:35 UM, AND WE HAVE KIND OF LIKE A,

2:04:36 UH, ONE OF THOSE INTERCOMS

2:04:38 WHICH IS TO DIAL IN TO GET

2:04:39 ACCESS.

2:04:40 AND AS I WAS PULLING UP I SAW A

2:04:42 WOMAN, UM, WHO, UH, WAS

2:04:44 DISTRAUGHT AND SHE WAS HAVING A

2:04:45 HARD TIME WITH THE INTERCOM

2:04:46 WHICH EVERYBODY DOES UM, AND,

2:04:48 UH AND WHAT WE FOUND.

2:04:49 UH, I WENT UP TO I TALKED TO

2:04:51 HER A LITTLE BIT AND COME TO

2:04:52 FIND OUT, UH, SHE WAS A CURRENT

2:04:54 CLIENT AND SHE NEEDED HELP

2:04:55 BECAUSE THE NIGHT BEFORE.

2:04:56 UH, HER MOTHER WHO SHE HAD BEEN

2:04:58 STAYING WITH WITH HER BOYFRIEND

2:05:00 AND HER SON, UH, WAS SLEEPING

2:05:02 ON THE FLOOR, UM, UH, IN THE

2:05:04 KITCHEN.

2:05:04 HER MOTHER TOLD HIM THAT SHE

2:05:05 NEEDED TO LEAVE.

2:05:06 UM, AND SO I BROUGHT HER

2:05:08 UPSTAIRS, GOT HER A CUP

2:05:09 OF COFFEE, SAT DOWN WITH HER

2:05:10 FOR THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS.

2:05:11 COME TO FIND OUT, UH, SHE HAS A

2:05:13 SON WHO SHE'S INCREDIBLY PROUD

2:05:14 OF, UH, WHO JUST STARTED BOSTON

2:05:16 LATIN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE

2:05:17 SCHOOL YEAR.

2:05:18 UM, SHE, UH, IS COLLEGE

2:05:20 EDUCATED IN HER FAMILY TO GO TO

2:05:22 COLLEGE.

2:05:23 UH, HAD PURCHASED A HOME OF HER

2:05:24 OWN.

2:05:25 UM, UH AND REALLY JUST THROUGH

2:05:28 NO FAULT OF HER OWN, SHE WAS

2:05:29 WORKING, UM, AT A FINANCIAL

2:05:32 SERVICES INDUSTRY, UH, COMPANY.

2:05:34 LOCAL COMPANY WHO LAID OFF HER

2:05:36 ENTIRE LEVEL OF MANAGEMENT.

2:05:37 UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, SHE

2:05:39 HAD, UH, HAS BEEN HARASSED BY A

2:05:41 FORMER EMPLOYEE WHO SHE FOUND

2:05:43 THAT WAS CLOCKING IN AND, UM

2:05:45 AND WASN'T REPORTING TO WORK.

2:05:47 UM, AND SO THE TRAUMA AND THE

2:05:49 HARASSMENT THAT'S CONTINUE TO

2:05:50 BOMBARD THIS WOMAN, UH, HAD

2:05:52 RESULTED IN HER GOING TO HER

2:05:53 LAST RESORT WHICH WAS STAYING

2:05:55 WITH HER MOTHER.

2:05:56 UM, BUT THE HARASSMENT HAD

2:05:57 MOVED TO HER MOTHER'S HOUSE AND

2:05:58 HER MOTHER SAID SHE COULDN'T

2:05:59 TAKE IT ANY LONGER EITHER.

2:06:01 UM, AND SO WE WERE IN VERY

2:06:03 SHORT ORDER.

2:06:04 WE MET HER.

2:06:05 WE, UM AGAIN TRIED TO, UH TO

2:06:07 MEET HER IMMEDIATE NEEDS.

2:06:08 RIGHT.

2:06:09 UM, AND SO WE, UH AS A CLIENT

2:06:11 WE WERE ABLE TO SHIFT SOME

2:06:12 OF WHAT SHE WAS RECEIVING AS

2:06:13 FAR AS SERVICES GO.

2:06:15 UM, YOU KNOW, UH, BEFORE WE

2:06:17 SENT HER OFF.

2:06:18 UH, WE CONNECTED WITH HER CASE

2:06:19 MANAGER.

2:06:20 UH, WE ALSO CONNECTED WITH HER

2:06:21 ,UH, HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

2:06:23 BECAUSE, UH, THE TRAUMA THAT

2:06:25 SHE EXPERIENCED SHE STARTED,

2:06:26 UH, HAVING COUNSELING AND SHE

2:06:27 HAD EXPRESSED MULTIPLE TIMES IN

2:06:29 HER CONVERSATION WITH ME THAT

2:06:30 IF IT WEREN'T FOR HER SON, SHE

2:06:31 DIDN'T KNOW IF SHE CAN CONTINUE

2:06:32 ON.

2:06:33 RIGHT.

2:06:33 UM, THIS IS A WOMAN WHO HELD UP

2:06:36 ,UH, HER OWN KEYS TO HER

2:06:37 HOUSE.

2:06:37 UH, NOT TOO LONG AGO AND

2:06:39 RECENTLY LOST THAT.

2:06:40 BUT, UH, BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T

2:06:41 PAY THE MORTGAGE.

2:06:42 UM, AND AS WE SENT HER OUT, UH,

2:06:46 WE FOUND OUT THAT SHE HADN'T

2:06:47 EATEN IN A COUPLE OF DAYS

2:06:48 BECAUSE SHE FELT BAD TAKING

2:06:50 FOOD FROM HER MOTHER.

2:06:51 UM, AND FROM HER MOTHER'S

2:06:53 PLACE.

2:06:53 AND SO WE GAVE HER A GIFT CARD

2:06:54 TO DUNCAN WHILE HER KID WAS AT

2:06:55 A CAMP.

2:06:56 UM, AND THEN WE GAVE HER A GIFT

2:06:57 CARD TO BUY GROCERIES.

2:06:58 UM, AS WELL.

2:06:59 UM, I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT,

2:07:01 UH, WE ALSO THROUGH SOME OF OUR

2:07:02 PARTNERS.

2:07:03 UH, SHE WAS ABLE TO SECURE A

2:07:04 JOB INTERVIEW AND SHE ACTUALLY

2:07:05 HAS BEEN HIRED.

2:07:07 UM, UH, SHE'S STILL STAYING

2:07:08 WITH HER MOM.

2:07:09 HER MOM GAVE HER A LITTLE

2:07:10 EXTENDED TIME.

2:07:11 UM, HER SON HAS STARTED SCHOOL.

2:07:13 UH, AND HE'S DOING REALLY,

2:07:14 REALLY WELL.

2:07:15 UM, BUT THESE WRAPAROUND

2:07:17 SUPPORTS, UM, IS PART OF THE

2:07:19 SOLUTION.

2:07:19 YOU ASKED EARLIER HOW DO WE DO

2:07:21 THIS?

2:07:21 UH, WE DEFINITELY NEED TO

2:07:22 INCREASE, UM, UH, AWARENESS

2:07:24 OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE,

2:07:26 BUT WE DO THIS TO OUR PARTNERS.

2:07:27 UH, THE 100 OR SO PARTNERS THAT

2:07:28 HAVE COME AROUND THE TABLE TO

2:07:29 WORK CLOSELY WITH DPS.

2:07:31 UM, YOU KNOW, COREY SAID HE

2:07:32 DIDN'T WANT TO STEAL MY

2:07:33 THUNDER, BUT HE KIND OF DID.

2:07:34 HE ACTUALLY HAD A LOT OF IT AND

2:07:35 BUT HE SPOKE MY LANGUAGE

2:07:37 BECAUSE WE HAVE WORKED SO

2:07:39 CLOSELY AS PARTNERS.

2:07:40 UM, EVERYONE UP HERE HAS WORKED

2:07:42 SO CLOSELY AS PARTNERS THAT WE

2:07:43 ALL SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE.

2:07:44 UM, YOU KNOW, AND WE ALSO HAVE

2:07:46 A SHARED EXPERIENCE.

2:07:46 UM, YOU KNOW, THE MAJORITY

2:07:48 OF MY, UH, TEAM THAT I GET TO

2:07:50 WORK WITH, UM.

2:07:51 UM, YOU KNOW, ABOUT 46% OF THEM

2:07:53 HAVE LIVED EXPERIENCE INCLUDING

2:07:54 MYSELF.

2:07:55 UM, YOU KNOW, I CALLED 18

2:07:56 DIFFERENT PLACES HOME BY THE

2:07:58 TIME I WAS 17.

2:07:59 UM, I DIDN'T GROW UP HERE IN

2:08:00 BOSTON.

2:08:01 UH, BUT I LOVE THE CITY.

2:08:03 UM AND, UM AND RETURNED BACK

2:08:05 RECENTLY.

2:08:05 UM, YOU KNOW, AND JUST, UM,

2:08:07 VERY PROUD AND HAPPY TO BE A

2:08:09 PART OF THIS WORK AND I'LL MOVE

2:08:10 ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.

2:08:11 BUT THIS IS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT

2:08:13 FAMILY AND THE WORK WE DO.

2:08:14 UM, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO

2:08:16 CONTINUING TO ENGAGE IN

2:08:17 CONVERSATION.

2:08:17 SO THANK YOU FOR HAVING US

2:08:18 TODAY.

2:08:19 THANK YOU.

2:08:20 UM, GOOD AFTERNOON, MR CHAIR.

2:08:22 UH, AND, UH, MEMBERS OF THE

2:08:24 COUNCIL.

2:08:24 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY

2:08:25 TO SPEAK IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY.

2:08:27 UM, AS I SAID, MY NAME IS ANNA

2:08:29 ERLICH AND THE MANAGING

2:08:29 ATTORNEY OF THE HOUSING UNIT AT

2:08:31 GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES

2:08:33 DOUBLES.

2:08:34 UH, WE'RE ONE OF THE OLDEST,

2:08:37 UM, LEGAL AID ORGANIZATIONS IN

2:08:39 THE NATION.

2:08:40 WE'VE BEEN HERE IN BOSTON, UM,

2:08:42 FOR 126 YEARS NOW.

2:08:45 UH, WE PROVIDE FREE CIVIL LEGAL

2:08:47 AID, UM, TO LOW INCOME

2:08:49 INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN A

2:08:50 WIDE RANGE OF AREAS INCLUDING

2:08:53 HOUSING AND WITHIN OUR HOUSING

2:08:55 WORK.

2:08:56 I WANT TO FOCUS ON TWO, UM,

2:08:59 AREAS OF WORK THAT WE DO.

2:09:00 ONE IS WE PROVIDE LEGAL

2:09:02 ASSISTANCE TO FAMILIES SEEKING

2:09:04 TO ENFORCE THEIR RIGHTS WITHIN

2:09:06 THE STATE.

2:09:07 UH, EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE

2:09:09 SHELTER THE A SYSTEM AND HOME

2:09:11 BASE.

2:09:12 UH AND WE RECEIVE APPROXIMATELY

2:09:14 FIVE CALLS EVERY WEEK FROM

2:09:16 FAMILIES WHO HAVE BEEN DENIED

2:09:17 ACCESS TO SHELTER OR ARE FACING

2:09:20 TERMINATION FROM THE SHELTER.

2:09:22 AND THROUGH THIS WORK, WE SEE

2:09:23 FIRSTHAND HOW A SYSTEM INTENDED

2:09:26 TO PROMOTE FAMILY STABILITY CAN

2:09:28 INSTEAD FAIL FAMILIES AT THE

2:09:30 VERY MOMENT WHEN THEY NEED HELP

2:09:32 THE MOST.

2:09:33 UM, I WANT TO RECOGNIZE MY

2:09:34 COLLEAGUE.

2:09:35 UM, PLEASE, ALFRED WHO'S HERE

2:09:37 AND SHE LEADS THAT WORK AND SHE

2:09:39 CAN SPEAK IN GREATER DETAIL

2:09:41 ABOUT ALL THE ISSUES THAT WE

2:09:42 SEE WITHIN THE STATE SHELTER

2:09:43 SYSTEM.

2:09:46 UM, SECOND, I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT

2:09:48 OUR EVICTION PREVENTION WORK

2:09:50 THAT IS AN UPSTREAM

2:09:52 INTERVENTION WITH THE WHICH

2:09:55 HELPS US PREVENT HOMELESSNESS

2:09:58 IN UH, HELP FAMILIES TO NOT

2:10:01 EITHER NOT NEED E SHELTER OR

2:10:05 WORK CASES IN CASES WHERE WE

2:10:06 CANNOT PREVENT THE EVICTION

2:10:09 ENSURE THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY

2:10:10 AT THE END OF THE EVICTION

2:10:12 PROCESS ENTER THE E SHELTER

2:10:13 BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT

2:10:14 OF BARRIERS OF ENTRY TO THE

2:10:15 SHELTER SYSTEM.

2:10:17 UM AND I WANT TO PARTICULARLY

2:10:18 HIGHLIGHT WITHIN THAT WORK OUR

2:10:21 UM ACCESS TO COUNCILOR WORK

2:10:22 THAT WE DO TOGETHER WITH UM THE

2:10:25 CITY MAYOR, UM THE OFFICE

2:10:27 OF HOUSING FAMILY AID.

2:10:28 UH, AND I WANT TO RECOGNIZE

2:10:31 COUNCILOR WEBER HIS, UH,

2:10:33 LEADERSHIP UM, UM, IN HELPING

2:10:36 MAKING THIS PROGRAM A SUCCESS.

2:10:37 UH, SINCE THE PROGRAM LAUNCHED

2:10:41 IN JANUARY 2025, WE WERE ABLE

2:10:42 TO PROVIDE LEGAL REPRESENTATION

2:10:44 FOR LEGAL REPRESENTATION IN

2:10:45 COURT TO MORE THAN 170 FAMILIES

2:10:48 .

2:10:48 MOST OF THESE FAMILIES, UH,

2:10:50 WERE REFERRED TO US THROUGH THE

2:10:51 EAP PROGRAM.

2:10:52 UH WE ALSO ACCEPT OTHER

2:10:53 REFERRALS AND UM, INDIVIDUAL

2:10:55 CALLERS.

2:10:56 OKAY.

2:10:57 UH, FOR US AS ATTORNEYS, THE

2:11:00 MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THIS

2:11:01 PROGRAM IS THE WRAPAROUND

2:11:03 SERVICES THAT OUR CLIENTS

2:11:05 RECEIVE.

2:11:06 WE CANNOT RESOLVE ANY

2:11:08 UNDERLYING ISSUES.

2:11:09 WE CAN HELP THEM IN THIS MOST

2:11:12 TRAUMATIZING PERIOD OF THEIR

2:11:15 LIVES FACING EVICTION OR OR

2:11:18 BEING EVICTED.

2:11:19 WITH ENFORCING THE RIGHT,

2:11:22 ENSURING THAT THE LEGAL HURDLE

2:11:24 IS BEING ADDRESSED.

2:11:26 BUT, UH, ALL OF OUR PARTNERS

2:11:27 HERE IN THE ECOSYSTEM WITHIN

2:11:29 THE WORK WE WORK HERE IN THE

2:11:31 CITY.

2:11:32 UM REALLY IS IS WHAT IMPORTANT

2:11:35 IS WHAT MAKES THIS PROGRAM AND

2:11:36 ANY AND ALL OF THE PROGRAMS

2:11:37 THAT WE WORK ON, UM, A SUCCESS

2:11:39 .

2:11:41 I ALSO WANT TO STATE AT THIS

2:11:44 POINT ONE CRITICAL CAVEAT.

2:11:47 WE ARE THE SUCCESS OF THIS

2:11:50 INTERVENTION OF ANY LEGAL

2:11:51 INTERVENTION DEPENDS ON US

2:11:53 GETTING TO THIS FACT TO THE

2:11:55 FAMILIES THAT ARE BEING EVICTED

2:11:57 AS EARLY IN THE PROCESS AS

2:11:58 POSSIBLE THE LATE THE LATER IN

2:12:00 THE PROCESS WE REACH THE LESS

2:12:02 LIKELY WE ARE TO CONNECT WITH

2:12:05 THE FAMILIES AND PROVIDE AN

2:12:06 EFFECTIVE LEGAL UM

2:12:09 INTERVENTION.

2:12:09 SOMETIMES FAMILIES COME TO US

2:12:11 AFTER A JUDGMENT THAT ENTERED

2:12:12 AFTER THEY ALREADY SIGNED AN

2:12:14 AGREEMENT TO MOVE OUT AND IT IS

2:12:17 REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE GET

2:12:18 CONNECTED WITH THESE FAMILIES

2:12:19 AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE.

2:12:23 I WILL GO SHORTER BECAUSE I

2:12:24 KNOW WE'RE RUNNING LATE.

2:12:25 I ALSO HAVE TO LEAVE EARLY.

2:12:27 SO MY COLLEAGUE UM LIZ WILL BE

2:12:29 ABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION BUT

2:12:31 THANK YOU SO MUCH, UM, FOR

2:12:34 GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO

2:12:35 SPEAK WITH YOU TODAY.

2:12:36 UM, I'M JUST VERY IMPORTANT

2:12:39 THAT YOU AND I.

2:12:39 LET'S FINISH SPEAK.

2:12:40 THANK YOU.

2:12:41 HELLO, COUNCIL.

2:12:43 I JUST WANT TO FIRST.

2:12:44 OFF, THANK, UH, COUNCILMEMBER

2:12:46 HERE FOR INVITING MEJIA, UM, TO

2:12:48 BE A PART OF THIS.

2:12:49 UM, AND ALSO I WANT TO THANK MY

2:12:51 COLLEAGUES HERE.

2:12:51 UM, IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE

2:12:53 WITH YOU GUYS.

2:12:54 UM.

2:12:55 YOU KNOW, I IF YOU TOLD ME A

2:12:59 YEAR AGO OR MAYBE EVEN THIS

2:13:00 YEAR THAT I WOULD BE SITTING

2:13:01 HERE, I DEFINITELY BELIEVE IT.

2:13:02 UM, I HAVE LIVED EXPERIENCE

2:13:03 WITHIN THIS ISSUE, UM, BOTH

2:13:05 BEFORE HIGH SCHOOL, DURING HIGH

2:13:06 SCHOOL AND AS RECENTLY AS THIS

2:13:08 YEAR.

2:13:09 UM, SO I HAVE A FRESH INSIGHT.

2:13:10 UM, OF THE ACTIVE SHELTER

2:13:12 SYSTEM IN THE BOSTON AREA.

2:13:14 UM AND THE EPIDEMIC ACROSS THE

2:13:17 STATE AS MY WORK SPANS UH, TO

2:13:19 THE MERRIMACK VALLEY AS WELL.

2:13:22 UM UM IN THE PROCESS OF PUTTING

2:13:24 TOGETHER OUR FIRST EVENT FOR

2:13:25 THE BOSTON YOUTH ACTION BOARD

2:13:27 WHICH IS GOING TO BE

2:13:28 OCTOBER 23RD.

2:13:29 UH, LOCATION IS CURRENTLY

2:13:31 PENDING.

2:13:32 LOOKING FOR ANY RESOURCES AND

2:13:34 HOPE WHEN IT COMES TO THAT OUR

2:13:35 TIME IS GOING TO BE WE'RE

2:13:37 EXPECTING FROM 5 TO 8 P.M. WEEK

2:13:39 BEFORE HALLOWEEN.

2:13:40 SO A WAY TO TRY TO ENCOURAGE

2:13:42 THE KIDS AND THE YOUTH TO GET

2:13:43 OUT AND MAYBE ENCOURAGE

2:13:44 DIFFERENT CONVERSATIONS AND GET

2:13:46 THEM INVOLVED.

2:13:47 BUT UM, I ALSO WANT TO MAKE

2:13:49 SURE THAT UM,

2:13:52 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD'S POINT

2:13:53 I'M ABLE TO TOUCH UPON WHETHER

2:13:54 IT'S DEFUNDING OR FUNDAMENTALLY

2:13:56 CHANGE THINGS.

2:13:57 I THINK BOTH ARE VERY GREAT

2:13:59 QUESTIONS.

2:13:59 UM, BUT WITH THE FRESH

2:14:02 EXPERIENCE I HAVE UM

2:14:04 UNDERSTANDING THAT YES, WE NEED

2:14:06 THE FUNDING MOST IMPORTANTLY

2:14:07 BUT WE REALLY NEED TO FOCUS ON

2:14:09 THE SYSTEM AND HOW DO WE

2:14:11 FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE IT?

2:14:12 UM, I HAVE TOO MANY EXPERIENCES

2:14:15 OF MY PEERS REACHING OUT TO

2:14:18 ME AND TELLING ME CIRCUMSTANCES

2:14:21 OF THEM TRYING TO SHOW UP EVERY

2:14:24 DAY, WHETHER IT'S IN A SHELTER

2:14:25 AND NOT BEING ABLE TO RECEIVE

2:14:26 THE PROPER RESPECT AND THE

2:14:28 TREATMENT OR THE REGULAR

2:14:30 RESOURCES OF DAILY HYGIENE.

2:14:32 UM, I'VE WITNESSED IT MYSELF

2:14:34 THIS YEAR.

2:14:35 I'VE SEEN A LOT OF ANTAGONIZING

2:14:36 FROM STAFF.

2:14:37 I'VE SEEN TEMPORARY STAFF

2:14:39 MEMBERS ULTIMATELY BE PLACED IN

2:14:40 THESE ROLES WHERE THEY HAVE NO

2:14:42 IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON AND THAT

2:14:44 ULTIMATELY BECOMES A LIABILITY

2:14:46 FOR THE SAFETY OF THE YOUNG

2:14:48 ADULTS THAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO

2:14:49 SERVE.

2:14:49 I'VE SEEN MEDICAL EMERGENCIES

2:14:52 HAPPEN DAILY WITHOUT PROPER

2:14:54 ATTENTIVENESS BECAUSE

2:14:56 UNFORTUNATELY THOSE INCIDENTS

2:14:58 DO HAPPEN DAILY.

2:15:00 UM AND UNFORTUNATELY.

2:15:06 THERE'S AN ONGOING PROBLEM

2:15:11 OF NOT HAVING ENOUGH PEOPLE

2:15:13 WITH THE WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE

2:15:14 IN THIS POSITION.

2:15:15 UM, SOMEBODY TOLD ME WHEN I WAS

2:15:18 IN THE SHELTER SYSTEM THAT

2:15:19 THEY'VE BEEN DOING THIS WORK

2:15:20 BECAUSE.

2:15:20 THEY WORKED WITH DCF FOR A.

2:15:22 WHILE AND UM OR NO, I'M

2:15:24 SORRY THEY WORKED WITH THE

2:15:25 JUVENILE COURT AND I THINK

2:15:28 THAT'S TWO TOTAL CONVERSATIONS

2:15:30 THAN WHAT WE'RE HAVING HERE.

2:15:32 UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO

2:15:36 ULTIMATELY END UP HOMELESS FEEL

2:15:38 AND THOUGH IT'S NOT AS IF IT IS

2:15:41 THEIR FAULT AND THEN WHEN YOU

2:15:42 GO INTO A PLACE SEEKING

2:15:44 SERVICES AND THEY DON'T WANT TO

2:15:45 GIVE YOU THOSE SERVICES AND

2:15:46 THERE'S BACKLASH SORT OF FEEL

2:15:48 LIKE A BURDEN ON THEM AND

2:15:50 ULTIMATELY, UM, YOU SHUT DOWN

2:15:52 EVEN MORE.

2:15:53 I KNOW YOU SPOKE ABOUT UM BEING

2:15:56 ABLE TO MEET THEM WHEN THEY'RE

2:15:57 MOST VULNERABLE AND UM, BEING

2:16:00 ABLE TO EITHER ACCEPT THEM WITH

2:16:02 WELCOME ARMS OR ULTIMATELY THEY

2:16:03 GET PUSHED AWAY COMPLETELY.

2:16:05 AND I'VE SEEN THAT HAPPEN TOO

2:16:06 MANY TIMES.

2:16:07 UM, IT'S HAPPENED TO

2:16:08 ME PERSONALLY.

2:16:09 UM.

2:16:09 I'M GRATEFUL THAT I HAVE THE

2:16:11 COURAGE AND THE WILLPOWER TO

2:16:13 CONTINUE SHOWING UP FOR MYSELF

2:16:14 AND MY PEERS TO BE ABLE TO BE

2:16:16 AN ADVOCATE TODAY.

2:16:17 UM, I ALSO FEEL LIKE THERE'S A

2:16:19 LACK OF EDUCATING THESE

2:16:21 STUDENTS.

2:16:22 UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT

2:16:23 THEY WANT TO BE OUT OUT DOING

2:16:25 UM.

2:16:28 WHATEVER ELSE.

2:16:29 BUT I KNOW A LOT OF THESE YOUNG

2:16:31 STUDENTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO

2:16:33 WOULD LOVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO

2:16:35 JUST HAVE A FAIR.

2:16:36 SHOT AT EDUCATION.

2:16:37 UM, EDUCATION.

2:16:39 UM, BEING AN ENTREPRENEUR AND

2:16:42 JUST BEING EMPOWERED.

2:16:44 I THINK THOSE ARE THE THREE

2:16:45 THINGS THAT I WANT TO.

2:16:46 UM.

2:16:46 BRING INTO THIS SPACE IS

2:16:48 EDUCATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND

2:16:50 EMPOWERMENT.

2:16:51 I WAS ONLY EMPOWERED ONCE I

2:16:52 LOST MY VOICE.

2:16:53 I LOST EVERYTHING AND I HAD NO

2:16:56 WHERE TO GO WHEN I WAS IN THIS

2:16:58 CIRCUMSTANCE AND I CONTINUED

2:17:00 SEEING THE NEGLECT AND I WAS

2:17:02 EXPECTING TO GET SERVED AND I

2:17:04 WASN'T GETTING SERVED.

2:17:05 UM ULTIMATELY.

2:17:07 THERE WAS A TRANSITION PERIOD

2:17:10 OF WHEN I DID GET MY KEYS AND I

2:17:12 DID GET KEYS AND THIS IS UM

2:17:14 PROOF THAT THE SYSTEM DOES WORK

2:17:16 BUT ALSO IN THAT TIMES WITH

2:17:17 ME GETTING KEYS I UM I SPENT

2:17:22 TOO MANY DAYS IN THE ONE

2:17:23 SHELTER SO I HAD TO TRANSITION

2:17:25 AND I WAS ON THE STREETS FOR

2:17:27 ABOUT TWO WEEKS IN THE MIDDLE

2:17:28 OF THE MOST RECENT UM,

2:17:29 SNOWSTORM THIS YEAR.

2:17:31 UM AND THAT WAS A WHIRLWIND FOR

2:17:32 ME TO DEAL WITH AND I JUST WANT

2:17:38 TO PIGGYBACK ON WHAT COREY SAID

2:17:41 WHEN HE MENTIONED WE NEED TO

2:17:43 MAKE SURE THAT.

2:17:46 FIGURE OUT HOW TO.

2:17:54 OKAY, I'M GOING TO SPIN THAT

2:17:56 BUT YEAH.

2:17:58 SO I JUST KNOW THAT UM, THERE'S

2:18:00 A LOT MORE THAT NEEDS TO BE

2:18:01 DONE AND YEAH, I WANT TO I WANT

2:18:04 TO BE IN THE CONVERSATION.

2:18:05 I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH

2:18:06 YOU GUYS IN THE FUTURE AS WELL.

2:18:07 I'LL LEAVE IT THERE.

2:18:07 THANK YOU.

2:18:09 UM, THANK YOU TO ALL THE

2:18:12 PANELISTS.

2:18:12 UH, FOR YOUR SERVICE, YOUR

2:18:14 WORK, UM, BRINGING YOU KNOW,

2:18:16 YOUR LIVED EXPERIENCE, UM, AND

2:18:18 ALL THE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE

2:18:19 TO THIS CONVERSATION AND

2:18:21 LOOKING TO DIVE INTO THAT.

2:18:22 UH, WITH THESE ROUNDS

2:18:23 OF QUESTIONS.

2:18:24 I'LL START UH, I'LL TRY TO

2:18:27 NAVIGATE.

2:18:28 ALL RIGHT?

2:18:29 YEP.

2:18:30 PERFECT.

2:18:31 UH, START WITH.

2:18:32 COUNCILOR WEBER.

2:18:36 OKAY.

2:18:37 UH, I THINK.

2:18:38 THIS START WITH A QUESTION FOR

2:18:40 EVERYONE.

2:18:41 UH, BUT, UM.

2:18:42 SO WHEN WE FIRST STARTED THE

2:18:44 ACCESS TO COUNCIL KIND

2:18:46 OF DISCUSSIONS HERE AND I THINK

2:18:48 IT WAS, UH, HARVARD UH, LEGAL

2:18:50 AID, UH, PROFESSOR LOUISE

2:18:53 LAWRENCE WHO TALKED ABOUT THIS

2:18:55 ,UH, BEING LIKE AN EMERGENCY

2:18:57 ROOM.

2:18:58 UH, AND YOU KNOW, WE WERE

2:19:00 TALKING ABOUT HOW HOW CAN WE

2:19:01 HELP AND YOU KNOW, LIKE AND

2:19:03 WITH STUFF LIKE ACCESS TO

2:19:05 COUNCILOR IT WAS WELL, FOLKS

2:19:07 ARE IN DIRE NEED OF HELP.

2:19:09 YOU CAN'T JUST SIT AROUND AND,

2:19:10 UM, YOU KNOW, WATCH AS THEY AS

2:19:13 THEY SUFFER AND SO JUST TRYING

2:19:15 TO GET TO THIS, YOU KNOW, AT

2:19:18 THE UH AT THE AT THE SORT OF AT

2:19:21 THE EMERGENCY ROOM LEVEL, YOU

2:19:23 KNOW, WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT

2:19:25 THE CITY NEEDS TO DO MORE OF OR

2:19:28 THAT YOU KNOW, IF IT'S JUST

2:19:30 COMING FROM THE CITY BUT

2:19:31 EVERYONE WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO

2:19:34 TO HELP PEOPLE WHO ARE, YOU

2:19:35 KNOW, WITH KIDS AND WHO ARE

2:19:38 FACING HOMELESSNESS.

2:19:39 SO I GUESS YOU KNOW, THAT'S

2:19:41 THAT'S MY SORT OF IT COULD BE

2:19:43 RAPID.

2:19:43 YOU KNOW, UH OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN

2:19:45 EXTEND THIS REALLY FAR BUT I'M

2:19:48 JUST TRYING TO THINK OF THIS

2:19:49 LIKE YOU KNOW, THIS NUMBER YOU

2:19:52 KNOW WE HAVE 5000 YOU KNOW, 405

2:19:56 I THINK IT WAS FROM BC FROM TWO

2:19:57 YEARS AGO AND WE WERE OVER 10%

2:19:59 AND THIS NUMBER OF STUDENTS ARE

2:20:01 GOING DOWN.

2:20:02 IT JUST IT SEEMS LIKE HEY, YOU

2:20:05 KNOW, I FEEL LIKE THIS IS AN

2:20:07 EMERGENCY AND UM, YOU KNOW AND

2:20:10 MAYBE IT'S YOU KNOW, I'M NOT

2:20:12 GOING TO PLAN ANY IDEAS.

2:20:13 OBVIOUSLY YOU YOU'RE ALL MORE

2:20:14 EXPERIENCED IN THIS FIELD THAN

2:20:15 I AM.

2:20:16 UH, SO I GUESS I'LL JUST GO

2:20:19 LEFT TO RIGHT.

2:20:19 IF YOU HAVE THERE'S 1 TO 3

2:20:21 THINGS I KNOW YOU WANT TO

2:20:23 HIGHLIGHT OF.

2:20:24 YOU KNOW WHAT?

2:20:26 WHAT DO WE NEED TO BE DOING?

2:20:27 AND YOU COULD ALL HAVE THE SAME

2:20:29 ANSWER.

2:20:29 SO YOU KNOW, I APOLOGIZE TO

2:20:31 THE.

2:20:31 FOLKS TO MY RIGHT.

2:20:33 UM, YOU CAN JUST REPEAT.

2:20:34 YEAH.

2:20:35 BUT I MEAN.

2:20:36 YEAH, IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

2:20:37 APPRECIATE IT.

2:20:37 AND SO I WOULD SAY WHY WE'RE

2:20:39 HERE TODAY WE'RE DOUBLING DOWN

2:20:40 AND LEARNING MORE ABOUT A

2:20:42 PROGRAM THAT WE KNOW WORKS.

2:20:43 EHAB RIGHT.

2:20:44 BUT THE RESEARCH IS THERE.

2:20:45 WE KNOW THE NUMBERS WE KNOW THE

2:20:47 INTERVENTION.

2:20:48 I THINK WE NEED TO MAKE SURE

2:20:50 THAT IT'S SUSTAINED AND

2:20:51 FINANCED.

2:20:51 AND I THINK THAT'S A ROLE FOR

2:20:53 THE COUNCIL TO COME IN AND HAVE

2:20:54 THESE CONVERSATIONS AROUND.

2:20:56 UM OKAY THAT'S GOOD.

2:20:57 AND I GUESS IF FOR YOU OR FOR

2:20:59 ANYONE ELSE IF YOUR HIP IS YOUR

2:21:01 ANSWER.

2:21:01 LIKE IS HE HIP PROPERLY SIZED

2:21:06 IS YOU KNOW WHAT IT SHOULD IT

2:21:08 DOES NEED TO GROW.

2:21:10 UH YEAH AND YEAH YEAH.

2:21:12 IT NEEDS TO GROW.

2:21:13 IT NEEDS TO HAVE TOOLS AS WAS

2:21:15 INDICATED IN THE REPORT THAT

2:21:17 ALLOW FOR EARLY INTERVENTION.

2:21:18 UM AND SO YEAH I'LL IF WE'RE

2:21:20 DOING WRAP IT I'LL KEEP IT.

2:21:21 TO YEAH LET'S DO IT LET'S DO

2:21:22 RAPID SURFER.

2:21:23 YEAH YOU GETS A.

2:21:25 CHANCE SO.

2:21:25 .

2:21:26 OH YEAH.

2:21:29 I THIS IS WHAT I.

2:21:30 KNOW WHEN.

2:21:31 I DO RAPID IT MAKES IT HARD

2:21:32 FOR.

2:21:32 YEAH SO IF I'M THINKING ABOUT

2:21:35 TRIAGE AND BEING IN A HOSPITAL

2:21:37 ROOM YOU GO FROM EMERGENT TO

2:21:41 OKAY WE CAN GET THEM STABILIZED

2:21:42 AND GET THEM SOME HELP BEFORE.

2:21:44 SO I THINK THERE'S A COUPLE

2:21:45 OF THINGS.

2:21:46 UM, ONE IS WITH RESPECT TO THE

2:21:51 HOTLINE SERVICES THAT DO EXIST

2:21:53 AT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

2:21:54 OF HOUSING UM DEPARTMENT

2:21:56 OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY

2:21:58 DEVELOPMENT.

2:21:59 SO MAKING SURE THAT WE RESOURCE

2:22:01 THEM TO HAVE FOLKS ON THE LINE

2:22:03 BECAUSE WHEN I'M TALKING TRIAGE

2:22:04 I'M TALKING TO FOLKS THAT COME

2:22:06 INTO OUR OFFICE LIKE IT WAS

2:22:07 MENTIONED HERE THAT LITERALLY

2:22:10 FEEL THEY HAVE NOWHERE TO GO

2:22:12 TODAY.

2:22:14 SO THOSE SERVICES WE STILL NEED

2:22:16 TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AND

2:22:18 CONTINUE TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE

2:22:19 RESOURCE.

2:22:20 NOW IF A FAMILY HAS A STABLE

2:22:22 SAFE SPACE LIKE THE FAMILY YOU

2:22:25 MENTIONED THEY WERE STAYING AT

2:22:26 THEIR MOM'S HOUSE EVEN THOUGH

2:22:27 THE MOM TOLD THEM TO GET OUT

2:22:29 BUT THEY WERE ABLE TO GO BACK

2:22:30 IN THOSE CASES IN THOSE

2:22:32 SITUATIONS THEN YES, I DO THINK

2:22:35 PROGRAMS LIKE EHAB I THINK THE

2:22:37 PROGRAM THAT WE DO AT HIGHER

2:22:38 GROUND IN TERMS OF PROVIDING

2:22:40 HOUSING SUPPORT AND

2:22:41 STABILIZATION WE NEED THOSE UM

2:22:44 AND YOU KNOW, OTHER PROVIDERS,

2:22:46 YOU KNOW, LIKE YOUR BRIDGE AND

2:22:48 ETC. TO BE ABLE TO GET FOLKS

2:22:50 INTO SHELTER.

2:22:51 AND THEN I WOULD SAY THIRD LAST

2:22:52 THING IS MORE FOR FAMILIES ONCE

2:22:55 YOU GET THEM STABILIZED IS

2:22:57 THINKING ABOUT WHAT ARE THE

2:22:58 NEXT STEP OF THINGS AND

2:23:00 RESOURCES NEEDED THE VOUCHERS

2:23:02 MAKING SURE WE RESOURCE AND

2:23:05 HAVE YOU KNOW, THE MASS VOUCHER

2:23:07 RENTAL UM PARTNERSHIP AND

2:23:08 PROGRAM MVP'S UM AND THAT WE

2:23:12 ALSO LOOK AT AS COREY AND IN

2:23:14 YOU MENTIONED SOME OF THE OTHER

2:23:16 SUPPORTS THAT ARE NEEDED FOR

2:23:17 OUR HOMELESS STUDENTS AND

2:23:18 FAMILIES LIKE THE WRAP AROUND

2:23:21 OF UM OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME

2:23:23 PROGRAMING MENTAL HEALTH AND

2:23:24 WELLNESS.

2:23:25 UM BUT IT STARTS WITH LITERALLY

2:23:26 DO YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY

2:23:28 RIGHT NOW TONIGHT AND THEN THE

2:23:30 E HIPS AND THEN FROM.

2:23:32 THERE YEAH I'M JUST JUST I

2:23:33 KNOW WE'RE DOING RAPID AND NOT

2:23:35 SO RAPID BUT I HAVE A FOLLOW UP

2:23:37 TO MAKE IT LESS RAPID.

2:23:38 UM SO WE TALKED ABOUT E SHELTER

2:23:41 AND SO YOU KNOW WE I THE E THE

2:23:44 STATE WANTED TO OPEN UP A

2:23:46 SHELTER IN WEST ROXBURY,

2:23:47 CREATED A LOT OF HEALTH AS

2:23:48 PROFESSOR AND PROBABLY FOLLOWED

2:23:50 PRETTY CLOSELY.

2:23:51 YEAH IT WAS A IT WAS A BIG

2:23:52 ISSUE AND THEN THE SHELTER

2:23:54 OPENED AND NOBODY EVEN KNOWS

2:23:56 THE SHELTERS OPEN BECAUSE IT'S

2:23:58 YOUNG FAMILIES AND YOU KNOW BUT

2:24:00 IT'S ALSO IT'S LIKE 10% FULL.

2:24:04 SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS

2:24:05 HAPPENING IN THE E SYSTEM.

2:24:07 THERE'S JUST YOU KNOW IT'S 48

2:24:09 FAMILY CAPACITY I THINK THERE'S

2:24:11 NEVER BEEN MORE THAN TEN

2:24:13 FAMILIES.

2:24:13 SO MAYBE AT SOME POINT IT'LL

2:24:14 HAVE MORE BUT LIKE HAS THE

2:24:18 CHANGES THE E SYSTEM YOU KNOW I

2:24:20 ASSUME EVERYONE IN DPS WOULD

2:24:21 QUALIFY UH BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN

2:24:23 HERE THEY'RE MASSACHUSETTS

2:24:24 RESIDENTS AND THEY HAVE KIDS.

2:24:26 UM, BUT THERE'S SOME ISSUE WITH

2:24:29 THE A'S THE STATE E SYSTEM THAT

2:24:32 MAKES IT HARDER TO GET PEOPLE

2:24:34 IN TO THE SHELTERS.

2:24:35 SO I WOULD NOT SAY THERE IS AN

2:24:37 ISSUE WITH THE SHELTER SYSTEM.

2:24:38 I'VE BEEN ON RECORD SAYING THIS

2:24:40 BEFORE IS THAT WHEN YOU TALK TO

2:24:42 OTHER CITIES AROUND THE NATION

2:24:44 YOU FIND THAT BOSTON,

2:24:46 MASSACHUSETTS IN PARTICULAR IS

2:24:48 BAR NONE ABOVE AND BEYOND IN

2:24:50 TERMS OF PROVIDING WRAPAROUND

2:24:51 SUPPORTS AND SERVICES FOR

2:24:53 HOMELESS STUDENTS AND FAMILIES

2:24:54 .

2:24:54 I THINK WHAT WE ARE SEEING NOW

2:24:56 IS THAT WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE

2:25:00 20 2425 SCHOOL YEAR, THAT'S THE

2:25:02 NUMBER THAT'S BEEN REFERENCED A

2:25:03 LOT IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER

2:25:05 OF HOMELESS STUDENTS AND

2:25:07 FAMILIES.

2:25:07 IT WAS OVER 5200.

2:25:09 BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT THE LAST

2:25:10 SCHOOL YEAR THAT NUMBER WENT

2:25:12 DOWN TO 4300.

2:25:14 AND SO WHAT I THINK WE ARE

2:25:16 SEEING IS A LOT OF DIFFERENT

2:25:17 FACTORS IS THAT YES, ENROLLMENT

2:25:20 NUMBERS HAVE GONE DOWN IN OUR

2:25:22 SCHOOLS BUT WE ARE ALSO SEEING

2:25:25 THE CONFLATING OF ICE AND MORE

2:25:30 FEAR IN SOME OF OUR NEWLY

2:25:32 ARRIVED OUR IMMIGRANT, OUR

2:25:34 UNDOCUMENTED FAMILIES IN TERMS

2:25:36 OF ACCESSING SERVICES AND

2:25:37 SUPPORTS.

2:25:37 AND THEN AS WAS MENTIONED

2:25:39 EARLIER, CORY AND BOTH DANIELLE

2:25:41 TALKING ABOUT UNAFFORDABILITY

2:25:43 AND SO IT'S NOT THE FACT THAT

2:25:45 FAMILIES DON'T WANT TO ACCESS

2:25:48 SHELTER OR WHATNOT, THEY'RE

2:25:50 JUST CHOOSING OTHER OPTIONS

2:25:51 RIGHT NOW BECAUSE AGAIN THERE

2:25:53 IS THAT FEAR IF I IDENTIFY WILL

2:25:57 THAT PUT ME ON A LIST?

2:26:00 WILL THAT PUT ME, YOU KNOW, IN

2:26:03 JEOPARDY OF POTENTIALLY, YOU

2:26:06 KNOW, OUR FAMILY BEING IN

2:26:07 DANGER AND SO WE'RE SEEING SOME

2:26:10 OF THAT BUT YOU KNOW AND I

2:26:11 THINK THERE'S A CONCERTED

2:26:12 EFFORT TO THE GOVERNOR HAS COME

2:26:15 OUT ABOUT THAT ABOUT MAKING

2:26:16 SURE FAMILIES HAVE ACCESS TO

2:26:18 HOME BASE SO THOSE FAMILIES

2:26:20 THAT ARE IN SHELTER THAT THEY

2:26:21 GET ACCESS TO THAT $35,000 OVER

2:26:24 TWO YEARS TO BE ABLE TO, YOU

2:26:27 KNOW, EXIT SHELTER AND INTO

2:26:30 HOMES.

2:26:30 AND SO THAT'S WHERE I THINK

2:26:31 SOME OTHER WORK NEEDS TO BE

2:26:33 DONE.

2:26:33 BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S A MATTER

2:26:35 OF FAMILIES NOT NEEDING

2:26:36 SHELTER.

2:26:37 BUT I DO THINK THERE ARE

2:26:38 SEVERAL FACTORS HAPPENING RIGHT

2:26:39 NOW.

2:26:40 OKAY.

2:26:40 AND JUST SO I'M CLEAR THAT

2:26:41 YOU DON'T BECAUSE UNDER THE

2:26:43 RULES YOU NEED TO BE A

2:26:44 MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENT FOR THE

2:26:45 PROGRAM BUT YOU DON'T NEED TO

2:26:46 BE A CITIZEN.

2:26:48 FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS PROGRAM.

2:26:50 I THINK SOMEBODY ELSE CAN AT

2:26:51 THE DOOR ANSWER THAT.

2:26:52 YEAH GREAT.

2:26:53 YEAH I WAS LIKE LEGAL IS HERE.

2:26:56 YEAH.

2:26:56 UM SO THERE'S LIKE ACTUALLY A

2:26:58 LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TO

2:26:59 DO IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR

2:27:01 THE SHELTER SYSTEM SO YOU YOU

2:27:02 DON'T HAVE TO BE A CITIZEN.

2:27:04 THAT'S TRUE.

2:27:04 YEAH.

2:27:04 YOU DO HAVE TO BE A

2:27:06 MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENT AND THAT

2:27:06 CAN BE PROVED IN A LIKE A LOT

2:27:08 OF DIFFERENT WAYS.

2:27:08 BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO HAVE AN

2:27:10 INCOME OF UNDER 115% OF THE

2:27:11 FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL.

2:27:12 YOU HAVE TO HAVE ASSETS OF LESS

2:27:14 THAN $5,000.

2:27:15 YOU HAVE TO HAVE A QUALIFYING

2:27:16 REASON FOR WHY IT IS THAT

2:27:18 YOU'RE HOMELESS.

2:27:18 YOU CAN'T JUST LIKE IF YOU'RE

2:27:20 SLEEPING ON ON SOMEONE'S FLOOR,

2:27:23 THEY'RE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO

2:27:24 FIND YOU ELIGIBLE BECAUSE

2:27:25 THEY'RE GOING TO BE LIKE WELL

2:27:26 YOU HAVE A FLOOR TO SLEEP ON.

2:27:28 UM AND SO LIKE WE WOULDN'T

2:27:30 CONSIDER THOSE FAMILIES STABLY

2:27:31 HOUSED OR HEALTHILY HOUSED BUT

2:27:33 THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO ACCESS THE

2:27:35 SHELTER SYSTEM.

2:27:36 UM, YOU ALSO CAN'T BE BARRED

2:27:38 BECAUSE OF YOUR REASON FOR FOR

2:27:41 UM FOR HOMELESSNESS WHICH MEANS

2:27:42 LIKE WHAT I HEARD DANIEL

2:27:43 JOHNSON TESTIFY ABOUT WAS THAT

2:27:45 MOST OF THE, UH, EVICTIONS ARE

2:27:48 NONPAYMENT EVICTIONS AND THAT

2:27:50 IT SEEMED LIKE SHE SAID THAT A

2:27:51 SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THOSE

2:27:53 ARE FROM FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE IN

2:27:55 HOUSING THAT IS TARGETED

2:27:56 TOWARDS LOW INCOME HOUSING,

2:27:57 RIGHT?

2:27:58 WHETHER THAT'S LOW INCOME

2:27:58 HOUSING TAX CREDIT UNITS,

2:28:00 RIGHT, OR WHETHER THAT'S OTHER

2:28:01 TYPES OF LIKE LOW INCOME

2:28:02 HOUSING.

2:28:03 BUT IF YOU'RE IN A LOW INCOME

2:28:04 HOUSING TAX CREDIT UNIT YOU MAY

2:28:06 MAKE 60% OF AMI OR YOU MAY

2:28:10 MAYBE LIKE TOGETHER YOU AND

2:28:11 YOUR PARTNER MADE 60% OF AMI

2:28:14 BUT THEN SOMEBODY LOST THEIR

2:28:15 JOB OR THEIR HOURS WERE REDUCED

2:28:17 OR THEY GOT SICK OR THEIR KID

2:28:19 GOT SICK OR THEIR PARENT GOT

2:28:21 SICK OR THEY BROKE UP AND THEY

2:28:22 DON'T MAKE THAT ANYMORE.

2:28:24 RIGHT.

2:28:24 AND SO NOW YOU'RE IN THIS UNIT

2:28:25 THAT LIKE IS MEANT LIKE

2:28:27 INTENDED TO BE UH, YOU KNOW,

2:28:31 SOMETHING THAT IS SUPPOSED TO

2:28:32 BE AFFORDABLE FOR YOU BUT

2:28:33 YOU'VE NOW LOST YOUR INCOME AND

2:28:34 IT'S NOT A DEEPLY AFFORDABLE

2:28:35 UNIT AND SO YOU CAN'T AFFORD

2:28:37 THAT UNIT.

2:28:37 SO WE MIGHT EVEN THINK OF THOSE

2:28:39 UNITS AS BEING RELATIVELY

2:28:40 AFFORDABLE LIKE WE MAY BE

2:28:42 TALKING ABOUT TWO BEDROOMS IN

2:28:44 MATTAPAN THAT ARE LIKE $2,100

2:28:46 BUT LIKE IF YOU ARE MAKING

2:28:50 $36,000 A YEAR OR $42,000 A

2:28:52 YEAR, THAT'S NOT ACTUALLY AN

2:28:53 AFFORDABLE APARTMENT FOR YOU.

2:28:54 RIGHT?

2:28:55 AND SO YOU I THINK THAT PART

2:28:56 OF THE ISSUE IS THAT FOR BOSTON

2:28:58 GENERALLY IS THAT THERE'S NOT

2:29:00 ENOUGH HOUSING THAT IS

2:29:02 NATURALLY AFFORDABLE OR THERE'S

2:29:03 NOT ENOUGH HOUSING, THERE'S NOT

2:29:04 ENOUGH WAYS TO KEEP THAT

2:29:05 HOUSING EVEN IF YOU'RE IN THAT

2:29:06 HOUSING YOU AND YOU HAVE LIKE

2:29:07 SOME SORT OF CATASTROPHE THAT

2:29:10 HAPPENS TO.

2:29:11 YOU.

2:29:11 BUT IT IS ALSO SIGNIFICANTLY

2:29:13 HARDER TO GET INTO THE SHELTER

2:29:14 SYSTEM THAN IT USED TO BE.

2:29:16 UM, AND THAT WAS A CHANGE THAT

2:29:18 THE LEGISLATURE MADE.

2:29:19 UM, THEY UH, USED TO HAVE

2:29:22 FAMILIES BE ABLE TO ACCESS

2:29:24 SHELTER IF THEY HAD NO PLACE

2:29:25 OF SAFE TO GO AND UH THEY

2:29:28 APPEARED TO BE ELIGIBLE AND YOU

2:29:30 WERE ABLE TO ACCESS SHELTER FOR

2:29:31 UP TO 30 DAYS WHILE YOU PROVED

2:29:32 THAT YOU WERE ELIGIBLE AND THAT

2:29:34 DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE THAT THEY

2:29:35 GOT RID OF THAT IN 2025.

2:29:37 AND SO I THINK WHAT YOU SEE IS

2:29:39 ACTUALLY A LOT OF FAMILIES WHO

2:29:40 ARE LIKE APPLYING AND THEN THEY

2:29:42 MAYBE CAN'T GET A DOCUMENT

2:29:44 TOGETHER THAT LIKE THEY'RE

2:29:45 BEING ASKED FOR OR THEY DIDN'T

2:29:47 REALIZE THAT THEY NEEDED A

2:29:48 DOCUMENT.

2:29:49 AND SO SORT OF CLOSE TO THAT 30

2:29:50 DAY DEADLINE OR THEY'RE BEING

2:29:52 ASKED FOR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW,

2:29:54 BECAUSE THE FIELD OFFICE MAYBE

2:29:56 IS ASKING FOR AN OVER

2:29:57 VERIFICATION.

2:29:58 RIGHT.

2:29:58 LIKE SOME OF THIS IS ALSO I

2:29:59 THINK ON THE SYSTEM ITSELF.

2:30:02 UM AND THEN THEY HIT THAT 30

2:30:03 DAYS AND THEY'RE TOLD LIKE WELL

2:30:04 YOU KNOW YOU'VE TIMED OUT AND

2:30:07 UM YOU CAN'T YOU KNOW, YOU CAN

2:30:09 START THE PROCESS OVER AGAIN.

2:30:10 SO AND AND ONCE YOU'VE DONE

2:30:11 THAT THREE TIMES THEN YOU'RE

2:30:12 NOT GOING TO CONTINUE TO APPLY

2:30:14 AND YOU'VE NOT ACCESSED SHELTER

2:30:15 YET RIGHT.

2:30:16 SO SO I GUESS IN RESPONSE TO MY

2:30:18 QUESTION ABOUT THE EMERGENCY

2:30:19 ROOM KIND OF LEVEL, ONE THING

2:30:22 IS AT THE AT THE STATE LEVEL TO

2:30:24 ADVOCATE FOR EASIER ACCESS TO

2:30:27 TO THESE SYSTEMS BECAUSE I

2:30:29 CAN'T REMEMBER THE CAP THERE

2:30:31 WAS A 7500 PERSON CAP.

2:30:33 I SAW IT IN E AND THERE.

2:30:35 WAS.

2:30:35 STILL THE CAP AND WE'RE NOT

2:30:37 EVEN HEARING ANYMORE.

2:30:37 YEAH THAT'S THAT'S WHAT'S THE

2:30:39 CAP IS A FOR SO.

2:30:40 YEAH SO UNDER THE UNDER I THINK

2:30:43 THE LINE ITEM IT'S NOW AT 3500

2:30:46 BUT UM THE SHELTER SYSTEM

2:30:48 ITSELF JUST RE PROCURED AND SO

2:30:52 UM THEY HAVE CREATED A SYSTEM

2:30:55 WHERE THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS

2:30:56 OF CREATING A SYSTEM RIGHT NOW

2:30:58 AT THIS MOMENT THIS MONTH THAT

2:31:00 IS SIGNIFICANTLY SMALLER UM

2:31:02 IT'S GOING TO BE CLOSER TO

2:31:04 AROUND 3000 UNITS UM STATEWIDE

2:31:07 .

2:31:08 STATEWIDE AND.

2:31:08 OKAY, THIS IS FROM THE

2:31:10 GOVERNOR WHEN WE WERE TALKING.

2:31:12 YESTERDAY WHO'S THE YEAH.

2:31:12 AND YEAH, I MEAN THIS IS AT THE

2:31:15 STATE LEVEL AND SO UH, THIS

2:31:16 TIME.

2:31:16 LAST YEAR WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD

2:31:17 AGAIN DAY 29 UM, IS THAT UH WE

2:31:21 HAD FAMILY AID HAD ABOUT 160

2:31:23 SOME ODD UNITS UM UH

2:31:25 OF SHELTER, EMERGENCY

2:31:26 ASSISTANCE.

2:31:26 SHELTER.

2:31:27 UM BY NOVEMBER 1ST WILL BE

2:31:29 DOWN TO.

2:31:31 77 UM WITH VERY FEW ACTUALLY IN

2:31:34 UM IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

2:31:36 UM AND THAT'S.

2:31:37 IN PART BECAUSE OF.

2:31:37 THE STATE CHANGES UM, ONE

2:31:39 THE RATES WERE SO LOW THAT.

2:31:42 IT JUST.

2:31:43 WASN'T SUSTAINABLE AND YOU HAVE

2:31:44 A LOT OF SHELTER PROVIDERS WHO

2:31:46 AREN'T WHO ARE IN THE PROCESS

2:31:48 OF UH, ELIMINATING THEIR

2:31:49 SCATTERED SITES.

2:31:50 UM, THE SITES THAT UM KIND

2:31:53 OF REPRESENT UH OPPORTUNITIES

2:31:54 FOR FAMILIES UH, MOST CLOSELY

2:31:56 REPRESENTING A HOME LIKE AN

2:31:57 APARTMENT OR SOMETHING LIKE

2:31:58 THAT.

2:31:59 UM, AND THE RATES WERE DROPPED

2:32:01 SIGNIFICANTLY.

2:32:02 UM, AND SO UM SO WE'RE ACTUALLY

2:32:04 IN THE PROCESS OF UH, SHUTTING

2:32:05 DOWN ANOTHER 33 UNITS WHAT

2:32:07 WE'VE BEEN TOLD BECAUSE WE

2:32:09 CONNECT WITH THE EMERGENCY

2:32:10 ASSISTANCE SHELTER UM, UH,

2:32:12 NETWORK OF FOLKS IS THAT

2:32:14 CURRENT STATE IF A FAMILY IS

2:32:16 TRYING TO GET INTO A SCATTERED

2:32:17 SITE, UM, AND THERE'S NO REAL

2:32:19 MEDICAL UH, UM, THEY DON'T DEEM

2:32:22 IT MEDICALLY NECESSARY FOR THEM

2:32:24 TO HAVE AND.

2:32:25 YOU KNOW, THE THE OTHER OPTION

2:32:26 IS.

2:32:27 CONGREGATE, WHICH IS KIND

2:32:28 OF LIKE GOING TO A HOTEL,

2:32:28 RIGHT?

2:32:29 UH, ONE MASS PLACE THAT'S

2:32:31 ACTUALLY WE JUST OPENED.

2:32:32 ONE THAT WAS LOWER THAT'S LOW

2:32:33 ENROLLED AS WELL.

2:32:35 UM, AND PART OF THAT HAS TO DO

2:32:36 WITH THE POLICY CHANGES.

2:32:37 IT'S REALLY.

2:32:38 REALLY DIFFICULT FOR FAMILIES

2:32:39 TO GET INTO IT AND.

2:32:40 THEY.

2:32:41 ALSO SHORTENED THE DURATION.

2:32:42 SO IT WENT FROM UM VARIOUS TIME

2:32:44 LIMITS TO SIX MONTHS.

2:32:47 UH THE HOUSE.

2:32:47 PASSED LAST YEAR AND EXTENDED

2:32:49 TO NINE MONTHS UH, FOR PEOPLE

2:32:50 TO BE IN THE EMERGENCY SHELTER

2:32:52 SYSTEM DIDN'T PASS THE SENATE.

2:32:53 UM, THINGS HAVEN'T BEEN FULLY

2:32:55 IMPLEMENTED.

2:32:55 RIGHT.

2:32:55 AND SO THE POLICY HAVE CHANGED.

2:32:57 THE FUNDING MODELS HAVE

2:32:59 CHANGED.

2:33:00 UM, AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN TOLD IS

2:33:02 THAT PEOPLE CURRENT STATE WHO

2:33:03 ARE CITY OF BOSTON RESIDENTS

2:33:04 WHO WANT A SCATTERED SITE AND

2:33:06 THEY ARE ABLE TO ENTER JUMP

2:33:08 THROUGH ALL THE HOOPS TO GET

2:33:10 INTO THE SYSTEM AT THE STATE

2:33:11 LEVEL.

2:33:11 UH, I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT

2:33:12 FAMILIES ARE BEING UH, REHOUSED

2:33:14 AND SCATTERED SITES UP IN

2:33:16 PEABODY.

2:33:16 CURRENT STATE UH, BECAUSE

2:33:18 OF THAT.

2:33:19 LEAVING YOUR KIDS TO SCHOOL IN

2:33:21 PEABODY.

2:33:21 YEAH.

2:33:22 BUT YEAH SO SO SO SO.

2:33:23 THERE ARE CHALLENGES UM.

2:33:25 AND SO I THINK ADVOCACY PIECE

2:33:27 TO.

2:33:28 ANSWER YOUR ORIGINAL QUESTION.

2:33:29 IS A MAJOR PIECE OF THIS IS

2:33:31 THAT WE WE REALLY NEED.

2:33:32 TO BETTER DEFINE UM, WHAT I

2:33:35 WOULD.

2:33:35 CLASSIFY AS.

2:33:36 A HIT.

2:33:36 HOMELESSNESS, WHICH ARE THE

2:33:37 FAMILIES WHO ARE SLEEPING ON

2:33:38 THE SOFAS WHO ARE UM STAYING UP

2:33:41 WITH FRIENDS OR.

2:33:41 WHATEVER THE CASE IS.

2:33:42 BUT THEN THESE POLICIES UM IT'S

2:33:44 THE.

2:33:44 PENDULUM HAS SWUNG REALLY FAR

2:33:46 AND WE'RE HOPING.

2:33:47 TO SEE.

2:33:47 A SWING BACK IN THE OPPOSITE

2:33:48 DIRECTION.

2:33:49 SO I'VE JUST GONE WAY OVER MY

2:33:50 TIME.

2:33:51 BUT UH, JUST ONE QUICK THING IN

2:33:52 THE CHAIR.

2:33:53 SO, UM YEAH, SO WE'RE TALKING

2:33:56 ABOUT LOSING YOU KNOW, FUNDING

2:33:58 FOR HIP AND YOU KNOW, WE HAVE

2:34:00 ACCESS TO COUNCILOR LOSING

2:34:01 THESE LIKE SORT OF UPSTREAM

2:34:04 TOOLS WHERE AT THE OTHER AT THE

2:34:06 AT THE END OF THE STREAM, YOU

2:34:08 KNOW, THERE'S NO SHELTERS UH OR

2:34:12 FEWER SHELTERS OR IT'S HARDER

2:34:13 TO GET INTO A SHELTER.

2:34:15 I MEAN, IT'S JUST I THINK IT

2:34:17 HIGHLIGHTS, YOU KNOW, THESE

2:34:18 UPSTREAM MEASURES BUT I GUESS

2:34:21 MY SO I JUST MY ISSUE HAS BEEN

2:34:24 WHEN WE HEAR FROM DPS LIKE

2:34:26 WE'RE GOING TO IDENTIFY PEOPLE

2:34:29 LIKE I I'M NOW WONDERING LIKE

2:34:30 WELL HOW DO YOU IDENTIFY

2:34:33 SOMEBODY WHO HASN'T PAID THEIR

2:34:34 RENT IN THREE MONTHS OR

2:34:35 SOMETHING?

2:34:35 YOU KNOW LIKE I I DON'T KNOW

2:34:37 HOW THEY'RE IN IT.

2:34:39 MY SENSE IS THAT IT'S HARD TO

2:34:41 DO UH AND WE'RE.

2:34:43 WE'RE WE DON'T HAVE A MAGIC

2:34:45 WAND LIKE I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU

2:34:46 KNOW, OTHER THAN DOING THIS

2:34:48 OUTREACH AND HAVING, YOU KNOW,

2:34:50 FLIERS IN THE BACKPACKS OR YOU

2:34:52 KNOW, HAVING PARENTS ANSWER

2:34:53 QUESTIONS OR SOMETHING I I DO

2:34:58 MY CRAZY IDEA THAT LIKE YOU

2:34:59 CAN'T JUST MAGICALLY KNOW WHEN

2:35:02 SOMEBODY IS IN THAT UPSTREAM

2:35:03 POSITION WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO

2:35:04 NEED THE SUPPORT.

2:35:05 SO YOU ARE DEFINITELY NOT AND I

2:35:08 KNOW UM THE PROFESSOR WILL

2:35:09 SPEAK TO THIS TOO BUT UM, ONE

2:35:12 THING WE FOUND IS THAT

2:35:15 OFTENTIMES, YOU KNOW, EVEN

2:35:16 THOUGH WE SAY THE NUMBER IS

2:35:18 4300 AS OF THE LAST SCHOOL

2:35:19 YEAR, WE KNOW THAT NUMBER IS

2:35:21 HIGHER BECAUSE THAT 4300

2:35:24 REPRESENTS STUDENTS THAT APPEAR

2:35:26 IN THE ASPEN SYSTEM THAT BOSTON

2:35:28 PUBLIC SCHOOLS USE THE STUDENT

2:35:30 IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM THAT THAT

2:35:32 FAMILY THAT STUDENT HAS A

2:35:34 HOMELESS TAG IN THE SYSTEM THAT

2:35:36 SAYS THIS FAMILY AT SOME POINT

2:35:38 IN TIME WENT TO SOMEONE AND

2:35:40 SAID I NEED.

2:35:41 HELP, RIGHT.

2:35:42 AND I THINK WHAT YOU'RE TALKING

2:35:45 ABOUT IS MAYBE THOSE FAMILIES

2:35:46 THAT DON'T HAVE THAT IDENTIFIER

2:35:50 IN THE SYSTEM.

2:35:51 AND I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS

2:35:52 WE'VE TRIED TO DO, UM, MUCH TO

2:35:55 MY DIET'S CHAGRIN IS OVER THE

2:35:57 LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS WITH

2:35:58 SCHOOL STARTING BACK UP, WE'VE

2:36:01 BEEN TO DOZENS OF BACK TO

2:36:03 SCHOOL BARBECUES, POPSICLE

2:36:05 PARTIES AND EVERYTHING JUST SO

2:36:08 FAMILIES KNOW THE RESOURCE

2:36:10 EXISTS.

2:36:10 IN ADDITION TO PUTTING THINGS

2:36:12 IN BACKPACKS IN ADDITION TO

2:36:13 THOSE OTHER THINGS.

2:36:14 BUT THERE IS NO MAGIC WAND TO

2:36:16 THIS IN TERMS OF LETTING

2:36:19 FAMILIES KNOW.

2:36:20 BUT THERE ARE PIECES THAT WE'VE

2:36:22 BEEN TRYING TO DO IS MAKE SURE

2:36:25 THE INFORMATION IS OUT THERE AS

2:36:27 MUCH AS WE CAN.

2:36:28 BUT AGAIN THE 4300 WE KNOW

2:36:31 THOSE STUDENTS.

2:36:32 THEY HAVE THE IDENTIFIER IN

2:36:35 THEIR STUDENT IDENTIFICATION

2:36:37 SYSTEM SAME WAY ON THE BACK END

2:36:39 FOR TEACHERS YOU SEE THEIR

2:36:41 GRADES.

2:36:41 YOU SEE YOU KNOW HOW MANY

2:36:43 ABSENCES THAT TYPE OF THING YOU

2:36:45 CAN SEE THAT AS WELL BUT IT'S

2:36:47 WHAT ABOUT HOW DO WE MAKE SURE

2:36:50 THEY GET COORDINATED TO FAMILY

2:36:52 AID TO UNITED WAY?

2:36:54 THAT'S THE PIECE I THINK YOU

2:36:56 KNOW AS COREY AND DANIELLE SAID

2:36:58 ,WE STILL HAVE WORK TO DO TO

2:36:59 MAKE SURE THAT THOSE FAMILIES

2:37:02 GET REFERRED TO US AND THEN

2:37:04 ONCE THEY ARE WE WRAP THEM

2:37:06 AROUND WITH SUPPORTS.

2:37:09 SO REAL.

2:37:09 QUICK, UH, COUNSELOR, UM, THE

2:37:12 CHALLENGE OF ACCURATELY

2:37:13 IDENTIFYING PEOPLE AT RISK

2:37:14 OF HOMELESSNESS IT IS IT'S

2:37:16 REALLY DIFFICULT AND I'VE DONE

2:37:17 SOME RESEARCH ON THIS AND LOTS

2:37:19 OF OTHER FOLKS WHO HAVE AS

2:37:20 WELL.

2:37:20 YOU CAN HAVE TWO PEOPLE.

2:37:21 WHO LOOK VERY SIMILAR LIKE

2:37:23 THEY'RE AT A HIGH RISK

2:37:24 OF HOMELESSNESS BUT BECAUSE

2:37:26 OF THINGS THAT WERE MENTIONED,

2:37:27 THINGS THAT CAN TRIGGER A

2:37:29 HOUSING CRISIS LIKE A JOB LOSS

2:37:31 AND MEDICAL CRISIS THOSE THINGS

2:37:32 ARE HARD TO PREDICT.

2:37:34 SO IT'S ACTUALLY VERY DIFFICULT

2:37:36 TO ACCURATELY IDENTIFY PEOPLE

2:37:37 WHO ARE AT RISK OF HOMELESSNESS

2:37:39 .

2:37:39 AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT

2:37:40 WE'RE DOING IN FOLLOWING ON

2:37:41 THIS STUDY THAT WE RELEASED IN

2:37:42 APRIL IS TRYING TO DEVELOP A

2:37:44 SCREENING TOOL AND WE TALKED TO

2:37:46 DPS LIAISONS AND FAMILIES ABOUT

2:37:48 .

2:37:49 KIND OF THIS POSSIBILITY.

2:37:50 OF HAVING SOME QUESTIONS THAT

2:37:51 COULD BE DEPLOYED WIDELY AND

2:37:53 WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF KIND

2:37:54 OF TESTING THOSE OUT TO

2:37:55 ACTUALLY SEE HOW ACCURATELY

2:37:57 THEY CAN IDENTIFY PEOPLE WHO

2:37:58 ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.

2:37:59 THE OTHER CHALLENGE ABOUT THIS

2:38:01 IS UM, YOU KNOW WHAT WHAT WAS

2:38:04 VOICE TO US BY THE LIAISONS IS

2:38:06 YOU DON'T WANT TO ASK PEOPLE,

2:38:08 UM, ABOUT WHETHER THEY ARE AT

2:38:11 RISK OF HOMELESSNESS UNLESS

2:38:12 THERE'S SOME RESOURCE ON THE

2:38:13 BACK END THAT YOU CAN OFFER

2:38:14 THEM.

2:38:15 RIGHT?

2:38:15 BECAUSE IF YOU ASK PEOPLE THESE

2:38:16 QUESTIONS IT'S VERY SENSITIVE.

2:38:18 PEOPLE HAVE IMMIGRATION

2:38:19 CONCERNS LOTS OF OTHER THINGS.

2:38:21 UM, AND SO IF YOU DON'T HAVE

2:38:23 ANYTHING TO OFFER ON THE BACK

2:38:24 END FOR PEOPLE WHO SAY.

2:38:25 THAT.

2:38:26 THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR

2:38:27 HOUSING, THEN THAT CAN ERODE

2:38:29 TRUST.

2:38:29 AND WE'VE HEARD UH FROM FROM UM

2:38:32 EARLIER JUST HOW IMPORTANT IT

2:38:34 IS FOR FOR THESE TRUSTING

2:38:35 RELATIONSHIPS UM, TO GET

2:38:37 FAMILIES CONNECTED.

2:38:38 OKAY.

2:38:39 THANK YOU.

2:38:39 YEAH, SURE.

2:38:41 YOU'RE JUST GETTING ME IN

2:38:42 TROUBLE.

2:38:42 SORRY, SORRY.

2:38:44 THIS, UH I THINK.

2:38:45 BUILDING OFF OF WHAT TOM SAID.

2:38:46 LEADS TO OPPORTUNITIES.

2:38:48 FOR FURTHER COORDINATION.

2:38:49 RIGHT.

2:38:50 SO I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.

2:38:51 UH, WE FIND A PARTNER, UM,

2:38:53 WORKING IN EAST BOSTON UNITED

2:38:55 WAY DOES.

2:38:55 AND WHAT THEY DO IS THEY

2:38:57 PARTNER WITH THEIR LOCAL.

2:38:58 HOUSING AUTHORITY AND THAT

2:38:59 HOUSING AUTHORITY FLAGS ANY

2:39:02 FAMILY THAT IS UM, EITHER AT

2:39:04 RISK OF MISSING A PAYMENT OR

2:39:07 EXPRESSES SOME SORT OF UH, I'M

2:39:09 GOING TO BE LATE THIS MONTH OR

2:39:10 WHATEVER.

2:39:11 THE ISSUE IS THAT HOUSING.

2:39:13 AUTHORITY HAS A RELATIONSHIP.

2:39:14 WITH A LOCAL COMMUNITY BASED.

2:39:16 ORGANIZATION CALLS THEM THEY

2:39:18 WRAPAROUND THAT FAMILY, COME TO

2:39:20 WHATEVER RESOURCE IT IS $400

2:39:22 FOR THE MAKING THE RENT A CAR

2:39:25 CONNECTION TO SOME SORT OF A

2:39:27 JOB EMPLOYMENT AND THEN THEY'RE

2:39:29 ABLE TO ACTUALLY UPSTREAM WRAP

2:39:31 THAT FAMILY AND HAVE THAT EARLY

2:39:33 IDENTIFICATION.

2:39:33 THAT'S ONE EXAMPLE BUT IT JUST.

2:39:35 HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE

2:39:37 OF COORDINATION NOT JUST

2:39:38 THROUGH.

2:39:38 THE SCHOOLS BUT ALSO THROUGH

2:39:40 THE HOUSING AUTHORITIES.

2:39:42 SO I JUST WANTED TO LIFT THAT.

2:39:43 EXAMPLE AS A TANGIBLE.

2:39:45 SOMETHING THAT COULD BE THOUGHT

2:39:47 ABOUT AND SCALED.

2:39:49 THANK YOU COUNCILOR UH

2:39:51 COUNCIL UH COUNCIL PRESIDENT

2:39:52 BRIGHTON.

2:39:54 UH I DON'T THINK.

2:39:55 UM COUNCIL MEMBER SHOULD

2:39:57 APOLOGIZE FOR TAKING MORE TIME

2:39:58 .

2:39:58 HE'S ASKING EXCELLENT QUESTIONS

2:39:59 .

2:40:00 UM.

2:40:01 YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW IN BOSTON

2:40:03 AND THIS IS UM IS IT SORT

2:40:05 OF GONE TO MORE FIGURING ABOUT

2:40:08 OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOUSING?

2:40:10 UM, RIGHT.

2:40:11 NO, THE MARKET SOFTENING AND I,

2:40:13 I HEAR ANECDOTALLY OF OF

2:40:15 RENTERS A LOT OF THEM ARE SMALL

2:40:17 LANDLORDS HAVE GOT 1 OR 2 EXTRA

2:40:19 APARTMENT APARTMENTS AVAILABLE

2:40:20 FOR RENT AND THEY'RE REALLY

2:40:22 LOOKING FOR TENANTS.

2:40:23 UM, IS IT A WAY TO YOU KNOW,

2:40:25 HOW DOES THE VOUCHER SYSTEM UH

2:40:29 HOW DO HOW DO WE TAKE A NUMBER?

2:40:32 I THINK THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY

2:40:33 LIKE OUR THIS LAST DEMAND FOR

2:40:36 HOUSING, YOU KNOW, UH, FROM

2:40:38 OVERSEAS STUDENTS AND SO, UH,

2:40:42 SADLY OUR IMMIGRANTS A LOT

2:40:43 OF IMMIGRANTS ARE DECIDED TO

2:40:44 VOLUNTARILY LEAVE OR THEY'VE

2:40:46 BEEN FORCIBLY REMOVED.

2:40:49 SO THERE'S MORE SUPPORT,

2:40:49 THERE'S MORE APARTMENTS

2:40:51 AVAILABLE PERHAPS THERE THAN WE

2:40:52 MIGHT IMAGINE.

2:40:53 SO THE WAY WE CAN SORT OF TAKE

2:40:55 ADVANTAGE OF THIS MOMENT IS IS

2:40:57 IT YOU KNOW, AND I IN THE.

2:40:58 LAST FEW WEEKS AND JUST KEEP

2:41:00 HEARING SINCE SEPTEMBER 1ST

2:41:02 LANDLORDS ARE LOOKING AT THEIR

2:41:03 INVENTORY AND AND OH MY

2:41:04 GOODNESS I'VE GOT EMPTY

2:41:04 APARTMENTS.

2:41:05 WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT PROBLEM

2:41:06 ANYMORE.

2:41:06 THERE WAS ALWAYS MORE PEOPLE

2:41:07 WANTING APARTMENTS AND THERE

2:41:09 WAS APARTMENTS.

2:41:09 SO IT'S A IT'S A WAY WE CAN

2:41:12 TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS MOMENT.

2:41:14 ANY THOUGHTS LIKE I'M JUST

2:41:16 THROWING IT OUT THERE.

2:41:17 UH.

2:41:21 YES.

2:41:22 AND SO YES IN THAT THERE IS

2:41:26 A WAY FOR THAT THE BUT AS YOU

2:41:29 MENTIONED THEY WOULD NEED A

2:41:31 VOUCHER OR THE UNIT WOULD NEED

2:41:34 TO BE SUBSIDIZED FOR MOST

2:41:37 FAMILIES.

2:41:37 I MEAN IF YOU LOOK AT RIGHT NOW

2:41:39 THE UH TWO BEDROOM AVERAGE COST

2:41:44 IS I THINK IT WAS MENTIONED

2:41:46 EARLIER 2120.

2:41:48 200 UM DOLLARS.

2:41:51 SO IF A FAMILY IS MAKING MOST

2:41:53 OF OUR FAMILIES MAKE BELOW

2:41:56 15,000 SO WHAT CAN THEY AFFORD

2:41:58 PER MONTH?

2:42:00 SO YES IT IS ABSOLUTELY

2:42:02 POSSIBLE TO BE ABLE TO GET THEM

2:42:04 INTO THOSE UNITS IF THERE IS A

2:42:07 SUBSIDY OR A VOUCHER THAT IS

2:42:09 ABLE TO MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE

2:42:11 BETWEEN WHAT THE FAMILY CAN PAY

2:42:12 AND WHAT THE RENT COSTS EVERY

2:42:15 MONTH.

2:42:15 BUT I ABSOLUTELY THINK, YOU

2:42:17 KNOW, SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS

2:42:19 AROUND, YOU KNOW, SMALL MOM AND

2:42:20 POPS THAT HAVE UNITS OR A

2:42:23 CONVERSION CONVERSATIONS

2:42:25 CONVERTING COMMERCIAL INTO UM,

2:42:27 YOU KNOW, RESIDENTIAL ALL

2:42:29 OF THOSE ARE NECESSARY.

2:42:31 BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO MAKE SURE

2:42:33 WE HAVE THE SUBSIDY TO BE ABLE

2:42:35 TO SUPPORT FAMILIES BECAUSE

2:42:36 WHAT WE'RE FINDING IS SOME

2:42:38 FAMILIES THAT GOT SUPPORTS AND

2:42:40 GOT THE SUBSIDIES HOME BASE IS

2:42:43 ONE EXAMPLE TO $35,000 OVER TWO

2:42:45 YEARS NOW THEY'RE AT THE END

2:42:49 OF THEIR $35,000.

2:42:50 AND SO NOW WE'RE HAVING

2:42:52 CONVERSATIONS DIFFERENT

2:42:53 CONVERSATIONS WITH FAMILIES

2:42:54 ABOUT HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE TO

2:42:57 GET YOU INTO A UNIT YOU CAN

2:42:59 AFFORD NOW THAT YOU DON'T HAVE

2:43:01 THAT SUBSIDY?

2:43:06 I WAS JUST.

2:43:06 GOING TO KIND OF ADD TO

2:43:07 THAT.

2:43:07 I MEAN, UH, PART OF THE

2:43:08 CHALLENGE OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING

2:43:09 AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL IS.

2:43:11 UM.

2:43:12 YOU KNOW, THE MIT UH, LIVING

2:43:14 WAGE CALCULATOR.

2:43:15 I'M SURE PEOPLE FAMILIAR.

2:43:16 WITH THAT THEY SAY, UH.

2:43:17 UM, A SINGLE MOTHER UH, WITH

2:43:19 TWO KIDS.

2:43:20 NEEDS ROUGHLY $160,000.

2:43:23 A YEAR IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO

2:43:24 MAKE ENDS MEET.

2:43:24 WELL, IF YOU'RE MAKING 13

2:43:26 $14,000 A YEAR.

2:43:27 HOW DO YOU GET TO THAT NUMBER?

2:43:28 RIGHT.

2:43:29 AND ACTUALLY PART OF IT CAN

2:43:30 BE THROUGH PUBLIC UH, SAFETY

2:43:31 NET PROGRAMS.

2:43:32 UM, UNFORTUNATELY WITH ALL THE

2:43:34 CUTS THAT ARE COMING DOWN FROM

2:43:36 AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL UM, YOU

2:43:37 KNOW, WHEREAS IT WAS POSSIBLE,

2:43:39 YOU KNOW, HOUSING VOUCHER AT

2:43:41 45,000 UH CHILDCARE VOUCHERS AT

2:43:43 30,000 UH MEDICAID AT 25,000

2:43:46 ALL OF THEM HAD BEEN CUT TO THE

2:43:48 POINT WHERE.

2:43:48 IT'S IT'S ANTICIPATED THAT

2:43:49 IT'S.

2:43:49 GOING TO GO FROM YOU KNOW, IF

2:43:51 YOU SUBTRACT OUT OR IF YOU ADD

2:43:53 IN.

2:43:53 THE 30,000 THEY.

2:43:54 MAKE A FAMILIES MAKING 160,000

2:43:56 .

2:43:56 THROUGH THE SAFETY.

2:43:58 NET PROGRAMS.

2:43:59 UM UM THAT SAFETY NET.

2:44:00 PROGRAM IS ACTUALLY GOING TO

2:44:01 DROP DOWN TO.

2:44:01 ROUGHLY 80 TO $90,000.

2:44:04 UM AND SO THE GAP IS WIDER.

2:44:06 UH, BUT THE.

2:44:07 ELIGIBILITY FOR YOU.

2:44:08 TO BE ABLE.

2:44:09 TO QUALIFY FOR THOSE SAFETY

2:44:10 NET PROGRAMS REMAINS THE SAME.

2:44:11 SO THEN WE TALK ABOUT THE

2:44:13 BENEFIT CLIFF, IF.

2:44:14 I.

2:44:14 START MAKING MORE.

2:44:15 MONEY I LOSE.

2:44:16 ELIGIBILITY I.

2:44:17 LOSE MY CHILDCARE VOUCHER

2:44:18 RIGHT.

2:44:18 AND SO SO GETTING BACK TO YOUR

2:44:20 ORIGINAL QUESTION IS.

2:44:21 THERE IS THERE ROOM OR SPACE

2:44:23 FOR YOU TO DO IT?

2:44:24 THERE COULD BE WITH SOME

2:44:26 CREATIVE SOLUTIONS.

2:44:27 UM ABSOLUTELY.

2:44:28 I ACTUALLY UM I WAS I HEARD

2:44:30 MAYOR WU'S.

2:44:31 SPEAK YESTERDAY.

2:44:31 UH, AT THE CHAMBER EVENT AND UM

2:44:34 ,WAS THINKING ABOUT THOSE 22.

2:44:36 COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES THAT ARE

2:44:37 GOING FROM.

2:44:38 UH, BUSINESS CONVERSION.

2:44:39 TO RESIDENTIAL.

2:44:40 AND I'M WONDERING IS THERE'S

2:44:41 SOMETHING THERE.

2:44:42 UH, THAT THAT MIGHT BE

2:44:43 POSSIBLE.

2:44:44 RIGHT.

2:44:44 AND SO, UM, I DO THINK THAT WE

2:44:46 WE.

2:44:47 WE HAVE TO BE.

2:44:47 SMART ENOUGH.

2:44:48 TO FIGURE.

2:44:48 THIS OUT.

2:44:49 UM.

2:44:49 UH.

2:44:50 BUT WE.

2:44:51 JUST HAVE.

2:44:51 TO DO.

2:44:51 IT TOGETHER.

2:44:52 I THINK WE ALSO HAVE TO WORK

2:44:53 WITH OUR NONPROFIT, UM, SECTOR

2:44:55 ,UM, YOU KNOW, OR CDC OR

2:44:58 WHATEVER AND AND THIS MOMENT

2:45:00 JUST LIKE THERE'S THERE'S GOING

2:45:02 TO BE INVENTORY OF NATURALLY

2:45:04 AFFORDED AFFORDABLE HOUSING

2:45:06 THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TRY TO

2:45:09 DIVEST FROM.

2:45:10 THEY'RE NOT GOING TO STAY IN

2:45:11 THE BUSINESS ANYMORE AND

2:45:12 THEY'RE GOING TO SELL THESE.

2:45:13 SO IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO TO

2:45:16 PURCHASE UM TO ACQUISITION.

2:45:18 UM.

2:45:19 UH.

2:45:20 NATURALLY FOR DEMAND HOUSING

2:45:21 THAT WE CANNOT BE PUT MAKE IT

2:45:24 TAKE IT OUT OF THE SPECULATIVE

2:45:25 MARKET AND MAKING IT MORE KEEP

2:45:27 IT MORE NATURALLY AFFORDABLE

2:45:28 OVER THE LONGER TERM AS WELL.

2:45:30 SO I THINK TO YOUR POINT, I

2:45:31 THINK WE HAVE TO BE VERY, VERY

2:45:32 CREATIVE IN THIS MOMENT AND AND

2:45:33 FIGURE OUT WHAT ELSE WHAT ELSE

2:45:35 WE CAN DO.

2:45:36 SO ACQUISITION FUNDS LIKE IT

2:45:38 MIGHT TAKE SIX $6 MILLION BUT

2:45:41 YOU GET UNITS OF COST YOU KNOW

2:45:43 UNDER $100,000 FOR A UNIT WHEN

2:45:46 YOU CAN'T BUILD A UNIT FOR THAT

2:45:48 AMOUNT OF MONEY.

2:45:48 SO YEAH.

2:45:49 YEAH IF I MAY ADD ONE

2:45:51 ADDITIONAL THOUGHT MIGHT BE

2:45:53 THINKING ABOUT THE SYSTEM

2:45:54 CHURN.

2:45:55 SO YOU HAVE AVAILABLE UNITS

2:45:56 THAT ARE MARKET RATE.

2:45:57 LET'S JUST SAY TO BRANDY'S

2:45:58 POINT ABOUT THE LACK OF VOUCHER

2:46:01 PERHAPS THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY

2:46:02 TO MOVE FAMILIES BUT YOU KNOW

2:46:04 THEY MAKE THE CHOICE RIGHT?

2:46:05 IT'S ALL DRIVEN BY FAMILIES TO

2:46:08 MOVE ON IF THEY DON'T NEED

2:46:10 THOSE VALUABLE RESOURCES THAT

2:46:12 PROVIDE THAT VOUCHER AND

2:46:14 INTENSE SERVICES.

2:46:15 RIGHT.

2:46:16 SO THERE IS A FEDERAL VOUCHER

2:46:17 THAT'S.

2:46:17 CALLED MOVING ON.

2:46:19 UM THAT'S AVAILABLE THAT ALLOWS

2:46:21 THAT UM ABILITY FOR THE FAMILY

2:46:23 TO MOVE ON TO THOSE VACANT

2:46:25 UNITS WITHOUT THE.

2:46:26 VOUCHER AND OPENS UP THE SPACE

2:46:29 FOR THE FAMILY THAT NEEDS THE

2:46:31 VOUCHER TO COME IN AT A

2:46:32 DIFFERENT POINT.

2:46:33 SO I THINK IF YOU LOOK AT YOUR

2:46:34 DATA AND DO SOME CROSS WALKING

2:46:36 THERE COULD BE SOME

2:46:37 OPPORTUNITIES TO DO JUST THAT

2:46:39 TO MOVE THE FAMILIES THAT YOU

2:46:40 KNOW SAY I WANT TO I'M READY.

2:46:43 UM I'M AT A.

2:46:44 POINT WHERE I'M GOING TO BE

2:46:45 LOSING MY VOUCHER BECAUSE I'VE,

2:46:47 YOU KNOW, GONE OVER THE LIMIT

2:46:49 FOR ELIGIBILITY WHATEVER AND

2:46:51 THEN THAT WOULD BE AN

2:46:52 APPROPRIATE OPPORTUNITY.

2:46:53 TO MOVE.

2:46:54 SO YOU HAVE THAT BACK.

2:46:54 END TO BE.

2:46:55 ABLE TO BACKFILL.

2:46:56 AND I THINK ONE OF THE ONE

2:46:57 OF THE STORIES THAT WE HEARD

2:46:59 EARLIER WAS THE PARENT WHO HAD

2:47:01 A REALLY GOOD PRETTY GOOD

2:47:02 PAYING JOB AND AND JUST OUR

2:47:04 WHOLE DEPARTMENT WAS WIPED OUT

2:47:06 AND SHE ENDED UP UNEMPLOYED.

2:47:07 SHE LOST HER MORTGAGE MARKET.

2:47:08 SHE LOST HER HOME.

2:47:10 THERE ISN'T A NO SHE'S REAPPLY

2:47:12 FOR EMPLOYMENT AGAIN.

2:47:13 SO THERE ARE PEOPLE WITHIN THE

2:47:16 COHORT THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO

2:47:17 TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE MORE

2:47:20 AFFORDABLE UNITS THAT ARE

2:47:21 COMING AVAILABLE NOW BECAUSE

2:47:23 THE THE MARKET HAS SOFTENED UP

2:47:25 A LITTLE.

2:47:25 YOU KNOW, AS YOU KNOW THERE'S

2:47:27 MANY MANY SOLUTIONS TO THIS I

2:47:28 THINK WE NEED TO PUT ON KEEP

2:47:29 OUR HEADS TOGETHER TO KEEP

2:47:31 THINKING YEAH BUT YOU KNOW

2:47:33 THANK YOU I'M REALLY IMPRESSED

2:47:34 WITH ALL THE GREAT WORK THAT

2:47:35 YOU'VE BEEN DOING AND.

2:47:37 UM YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS IS AN

2:47:39 INCREDIBLE.

2:47:40 UH.

2:47:41 CONVERSATION WE'RE HAVING

2:47:42 AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN KEEP

2:47:44 KICKING THE TIRES AND KEEP

2:47:45 COMING UP WITH MORE SOLUTIONS

2:47:46 BECAUSE THERE'S NO ONE WAY TO

2:47:48 DO THIS.

2:47:48 YOU KNOW, I DID.

2:47:50 GO AHEAD.

2:47:52 SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR

2:47:55 MENTIONING, UM, INVOLVING THE

2:47:56 LOCAL NONPROFITS.

2:47:57 UM, I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO

2:47:59 GET SERVED AND ALSO WORK UM

2:48:01 WITH AND ALONGSIDE AND JUST

2:48:04 VOLUNTEER JUST OUT OF THE

2:48:06 PASSION UM, FOR THIS AND JUST

2:48:08 FOR THE WORK THAT GOES ACROSS

2:48:10 UM THE ENTIRE COMMONWEALTH AND

2:48:11 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE

2:48:12 BEEN WORKING ON AND THIS IS

2:48:14 STUFF THAT IS DIRECTLY ALIGNED

2:48:16 WITH MY PROFESSIONAL CAREER BUT

2:48:18 ALSO WHAT I DO A LITTLE BIT

2:48:19 ABOUT MYSELF.

2:48:20 SO STUDENT ATHLETE AT BUNKER

2:48:21 HILL UM, ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO

2:48:23 THERE WAS THIS.

2:48:24 BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF LEGISLATION.

2:48:26 THAT WAS PASSED INTO LAW

2:48:27 ALLOWING COLLEGE ATHLETES TO

2:48:29 CAPITALIZE OFF THEIR NAME,

2:48:30 IMAGE, LIKENESS PRETTY MUCH BE

2:48:32 ABLE TO BE.

2:48:35 UM UM JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE

2:48:37 ON CAMPUS NO LONGER WITH THESE

2:48:39 UNIVERSITIES TAKING ADVANTAGE

2:48:41 OF THEIR LABOR, UM, AND TELLING

2:48:44 THEM TO GO FEND FOR THEMSELVES

2:48:45 WITH THE SCHOLARSHIP, WITH THE

2:48:47 MEAL PLAN, WITH THE HOUSING AND

2:48:50 TAKING AND TAKING THE UM THE

2:48:52 REVENUE AND THE PROFITS

2:48:53 OF THEIR JERSEY SALES AND

2:48:54 THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

2:48:56 SO WHAT THE THE ENTIRE BUSINESS

2:48:58 MODEL IS.

2:49:01 IS EVEN THOUGH IT'S.

2:49:03 CONTRADICTS ITSELF AND IT'S NOT

2:49:05 EXACTLY.

2:49:06 WHAT IT SHOULD BE.

2:49:07 THE BUSINESS MODEL IS THESE

2:49:08 COLLEGE ATHLETES ARE GOING TO

2:49:10 GET PAID FOR THEIR NAME AND

2:49:12 THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS.

2:49:13 THEY'RE WHAT THEY BRING TO THE.

2:49:14 TABLE WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY

2:49:16 REPRESENT, HOW THEIR

2:49:17 MARKETABILITY.

2:49:19 AND THEN THERE'S THE OPPOSITE

2:49:21 SIDE.

2:49:21 OF.

2:49:22 IT WHERE THEY'RE SAYING THAT

2:49:23 HEY, THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO

2:49:24 THIS BUT WE'RE JUST GOING TO

2:49:25 PAY THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE

2:49:25 REALLY.

2:49:26 GOOD ATHLETES AND UNFORTUNATELY

2:49:27 I DON'T GO TO ONE OF THOSE.

2:49:28 SCHOOLS THAT HAVE A.

2:49:29 REALLY BIG BUDGET TO.

2:49:30 POUR INTO ME AS AN ATHLETE.

2:49:32 BUT I'VE DONE THE DUE DILIGENCE

2:49:34 I'VE BEEN AROUND IN THE

2:49:35 INDUSTRY.

2:49:36 I'VE BUILT THE.

2:49:36 NETWORK AND I'VE ALSO RECEIVED

2:49:38 UM THIS PAST SUMMER AN AWARD I

2:49:40 WAS NOMINATED AND SELECTED BY

2:49:42 GO FOR.

2:49:43 COMMUNITY BUILDER OF THE YEAR

2:49:44 OUT OF ALL.

2:49:44 THE ENTIRE.

2:49:45 COLLEGE ATHLETES IN THE

2:49:46 COUNTRY.

2:49:46 AND NOW I'VE SEEN THAT I'VE

2:49:50 REALLY PUT.

2:49:51 MYSELF IN POSITION TO UM.

2:49:55 ALIGN WITH.

2:49:55 THE THE.

2:49:56 MARKET.

2:49:57 VALUE OF THE REST OF OF

2:49:58 COLLEGE.

2:49:58 ATHLETES IN THE COUNTRY BECAUSE

2:50:00 OF MY WORTH AND MY

2:50:01 UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT I'M DOING

2:50:02 NOW BUT ALSO THE IMPACT IT'S

2:50:04 GOING TO HAVE.

2:50:04 IN THE FUTURE WHEN I'M.

2:50:05 NO LONGER A COLLEGE ATHLETE.

2:50:07 SO ALL THAT BEING.

2:50:08 SAID AND GOING BACK TO THE

2:50:09 FUNDING PORTION.

2:50:10 PORTION THAT.

2:50:11 PANEL UM.

2:50:12 BEFORE I.

2:50:13 REALIZED I WAS SELECTED,

2:50:15 NOMINATED AND RECEIVED.

2:50:16 THE AWARD FOR THEM, THEY.

2:50:18 ULTIMATELY HAD ANOTHER ATHLETE

2:50:20 WHO HAD A.

2:50:22 NONPROFIT IN WHICH.

2:50:23 A BRAND.

2:50:23 WAS.

2:50:24 HAVING A CONVERSATION.

2:50:25 WITH HIM AND THEY SAID, HEY,

2:50:26 WE WANT TO.

2:50:26 GIVE YOU $10,000 TO REPRESENT

2:50:28 OUR ORGANIZATION.

2:50:29 AND HE SAID, THANK YOU VERY

2:50:30 MUCH.

2:50:31 THAT'S AWESOME.

2:50:31 I'LL TAKE THAT.

2:50:32 BUT WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO IS I

2:50:33 WANT YOU.

2:50:34 TO.

2:50:34 UM, DOUBLE.

2:50:34 THAT AND.

2:50:35 MATCH IT TO MY NONPROFIT.

2:50:36 AND THEY DID AND HE CONTINUED.

2:50:38 THAT MODEL UM.

2:50:39 GOING FORWARD.

2:50:40 AND SOME.

2:50:40 BRANDS WERE ABLE TO DOUBLE IT

2:50:42 AND SOME WERE ABLE TO SPLIT IT

2:50:44 IN HALF AND HE WAS ABLE TO TAKE

2:50:45 FIVE AND HE WAS.

2:50:46 ABLE TO GIVE FIVE TO HIS

2:50:47 NONPROFIT.

2:50:48 SO JUST TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW

2:50:50 THAT'S WHAT.

2:50:50 I'M LOOKING TO BRING INTO THE.

2:50:52 ACROSS THE STATE.

2:50:53 WITH SOME OF THE NETWORKS THAT

2:50:54 I HAVE UM IN.

2:50:56 BOSTON AND OUTSIDE OF BOSTON TO

2:50:57 TRY TO ALLEVIATE.

2:50:58 THIS BUT ALSO TO USE ME MY

2:51:01 LIVED EXPERIENCE.

2:51:02 MY PLATFORM AND MY NETWORK UM.

2:51:05 WITHIN THIS SPACE.

2:51:07 IN BOSTON BUT ALSO ACROSS THE

2:51:09 COUNTRY.

2:51:10 UM.

2:51:10 BECAUSE PEOPLE KNOW THAT

2:51:11 THIS.

2:51:12 IS SOMETHING THIS IS A PART

2:51:13 OF MY STORY.

2:51:13 THIS IS THIS IS WHAT I'M HERE

2:51:15 FOR.

2:51:15 AND THAT'S WHAT THE INDUSTRY IS

2:51:17 ABOUT.

2:51:17 SO YOU KNOW, AS BOSTON.

2:51:18 IS IS A PLACE THAT'S.

2:51:20 BORN ON.

2:51:22 JUST IT'S A UNION CITY.

2:51:25 UM, I WAS ALSO SELECTED AS ONE

2:51:27 OF THE 16 ATHLETES IN THE

2:51:28 COUNTRY LAST.

2:51:28 YEAR TO REPRESENT WHY.

2:51:30 NCAA NEEDS A UNION.

2:51:32 UM.

2:51:32 THERE'S A LOT

2:51:33 OF CONVERSATIONS THAT I'VE BEEN

2:51:35 IN HAVE BEEN TAKING PART OF AND

2:51:36 A LOT OF THINGS THAT I'VE BEEN

2:51:38 WATCHING AND LEARNING AND ALSO

2:51:40 APPLYING TO TO.

2:51:41 GET INVOLVED.

2:51:42 TO MAKE MYSELF AN ASSET.

2:51:43 AND I'VE.

2:51:43 ALREADY WORKED WITH MULTIPLE

2:51:46 NATIONAL SCALE BRANDS SUCH AS

2:51:47 GODADDY, THE WEBSITE.

2:51:49 UM I JUST.

2:51:49 SECURED A PARTNERSHIP.

2:51:50 WITH ALLEGIANT AIRLINES OVER

2:51:51 THE.

2:51:52 SUMMER AND UH, A COUPLE.

2:51:53 DIFFERENT DRINK.

2:51:54 COMPANIES SUCH AS LOCAL ENERGY

2:51:56 UNDERDOG UM, AND A COUPLE.

2:51:58 MORE BUT IT'S JUST.

2:52:00 A NEW CONVERSATION.

2:52:01 AND PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE.

2:52:01 I KNOW AT THE MOMENT ALL THE

2:52:03 NONPROFITS.

2:52:04 ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE FIGHTING

2:52:06 .

2:52:07 OVER A LACK.

2:52:08 OF GRANT MONEY.

2:52:09 BUT I WANT TO CHANGE THAT.

2:52:10 CONVERSATION TO BEING ABLE TO

2:52:11 ACCESS SPONSORSHIP AND.

2:52:13 DIFFERENT.

2:52:13 TYPE OF PRIVATE FUNDS TO.

2:52:15 BE ABLE TO.

2:52:15 PULL INTO MY OWN ACCORD AND

2:52:17 THAT'S ACTUALLY WHAT I'M GOING

2:52:17 TO BE DOING FOR OCTOBER 23RD.

2:52:19 I'M GOING TO BE LOOKING.

2:52:20 TO PARTNER WITH DEALS.

2:52:21 THAT ARE NOT ONLY GOING TO PAY.

2:52:22 FOR UM MY NAME IMAGE LIKENESS

2:52:25 TO TO.

2:52:25 PROMOTE THEIR BUSINESS.

2:52:26 BUT ALSO I'M GOING TO ASK THEM

2:52:28 TO MATCH SOME DONATIONS AND.

2:52:30 RESOURCES TO.

2:52:31 GIVE BACK TO THE HOMELESS

2:52:32 YOUTH ON OCTOBER 23RD AND WHICH

2:52:33 I'D LOVE TO SEE YOU GUYS THERE.

2:52:35 THANK YOU.

2:52:37 THANK YOU, MISTER CHAIR.

2:52:38 THAT'S ALL I HAD.

2:52:39 THANK YOU.

2:52:40 UM.

2:52:40 I HAD ONE QUESTION AND, UM,

2:52:43 PRESIDENT RAMOS, YOU MENTIONED

2:52:44 YOU GAVE, UM, A BREAKDOWN

2:52:46 OF THE CLIENTS THAT YOU WERE

2:52:47 SERVING.

2:52:48 ARE YOU ABLE TO SUBMIT THAT

2:52:49 INFORMATION?

2:52:50 ABSOLUTELY.

2:52:51 AWESOME.

2:52:52 THANK YOU.

2:52:52 YEAH.

2:52:52 HAPPY TO DO.

2:52:53 AWESOME.

2:52:54 UM.

2:52:55 COUNCIL WEBER.

2:52:55 YEAH.

2:52:57 SO JUST A COUPLE OF FOLLOW UP

2:52:58 QUESTIONS.

2:52:59 UM, SO I GUESS I THINK THIS IS,

2:53:01 UH, FOR.

2:53:02 UNITED WAY AND HIGHER GROUND

2:53:04 AND FAMILY AID.

2:53:05 SO IN TERMS OF LIKE DO WE HAVE

2:53:07 THE CAPACITY?

2:53:08 DO YOU.

2:53:08 HAVE THE CAPACITY YOU KNOW, TO

2:53:11 PROVIDE.

2:53:12 SERVICES IF WE CAN GET NOTICE

2:53:14 TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM

2:53:16 IN BOSTON?

2:53:17 UH, IT IS LIKE RIGHT NOW OR UM

2:53:20 .

2:53:22 SO WHAT DO YOU THINK?

2:53:23 YEAH.

2:53:25 SO 4300 STUDENTS LET'S SAY

2:53:27 NUMBER OF FAMILIES ROUGHLY 3500

2:53:32 FAMILIES REPRESENT THOSE 4300

2:53:35 STUDENTS.

2:53:35 UM I WILL SAY NOT NOW TODAY

2:53:38 DOES HIGHER GROUND HAVE THAT

2:53:39 CAPACITY?

2:53:40 THAT'S WHY I THINK YOU KNOW

2:53:41 WHAT COREY MENTIONED AND

2:53:43 DANIELLE MENTIONED IS A

2:53:44 COORDINATED RESPONSE SO THAT,

2:53:46 YOU KNOW, SOME FAMILIES GET

2:53:48 REFERRED TO HIGHER GROUND, SOME

2:53:49 FAMILIES GET REFERRED TO FAMILY

2:53:51 AID.

2:53:52 SOME FAMILIES MAY GET A

2:53:54 REFERRAL TO UNITED WAY TO BE

2:53:55 ABLE TO GET TO THEIR NETWORK.

2:53:58 UM, BUT I DON'T THINK THERE IS

2:54:00 ANY ONE ORGANIZATION THAT COULD

2:54:02 TAKE ON THAT.

2:54:03 I MEAN ALTOGETHER.

2:54:04 OH, BUT.

2:54:05 ALL TO UH THE UM I WOULD SAY

2:54:09 IT IS IF WE HAD ADDITIONAL

2:54:12 RESOURCES BECAUSE ONE OF THE

2:54:13 THINGS THAT WAS MENTIONED

2:54:14 EARLIER WAS HAVING A NAVIGATOR

2:54:18 THAT HELPS THAT ONE FAMILY

2:54:20 NAVIGATE EVERYTHING AND SO WE

2:54:22 NEED TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE

2:54:23 STAFFING LEVELS, THE LANGUAGE

2:54:26 CAPABILITIES AND OTHER THINGS

2:54:27 TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THE

2:54:28 FAMILIES.

2:54:29 SO I WOULD SAY RIGHT NOW AGAIN

2:54:31 I'M SPEAKING FROM HIGHER GROUND

2:54:33 IS I DO NOT THINK THERE IS THE

2:54:34 CAPACITY PARTICULARLY WITH SOME

2:54:37 OF THE OTHER RESOURCES BEING

2:54:38 CUT AS WELL.

2:54:40 UM BUT I DO THINK IF WE PUT IN

2:54:43 THE INVESTMENT WE COULD

2:54:44 ABSOLUTELY TACKLE IT AND I YOU

2:54:48 KNOW, WOULD LIKE TO BE BOLD AND

2:54:50 AS US COLLABORATIVELY SAY FIVE

2:54:52 YEARS FROM NOW IF WE DO WHAT'S

2:54:55 NECESSARY WE WILL SEE A DECLINE

2:54:57 BY THIS PERCENTAGE.

2:55:00 UH I GUESS DO YOU AGREE PLEASE.

2:55:04 YOU'RE THE PROVIDER.

2:55:06 UM, I WOULD AGREE.

2:55:07 CURRENT STATE.

2:55:09 UM UM.

2:55:10 TO SUPPORT THE FAMILIES

2:55:11 THROUGHOUT THE.

2:55:12 ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR AND EVEN

2:55:14 INTO THE.

2:55:14 SUMMER AND KNOW LIKE THE THE

2:55:16 THE CAPACITY JUST ISN'T THERE

2:55:17 YET.

2:55:18 UM, HOWEVER I UM WHAT I WILL

2:55:22 SAY IS THAT, UM I AM AGAIN

2:55:26 RELATIVELY NEW.

2:55:27 UH, WE'RE IN THE PROCESS

2:55:29 OF DEVELOPING A NEW MARKETING

2:55:31 COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY BECAUSE

2:55:32 WE ACTUALLY WANT TO RUN OUT

2:55:34 OF RESOURCES EARLY SO WE CAN

2:55:35 TURN AROUND WITH THE DATA AND

2:55:36 SAY HEY, LISTEN, THERE IS THIS

2:55:37 NEED THAT HAS GONE UNMET.

2:55:40 UM, AND UH AND WE SERVED AS

2:55:42 MANY FAMILIES AS FAST AND AS

2:55:44 QUICKLY AS WE POSSIBLY COULD

2:55:45 THE CITY, THE STATE

2:55:48 PHILANTHROPY EVERYONE NEEDS TO

2:55:49 STEP UP, UM, TO TRY TO PROVIDE

2:55:51 THOSE RESOURCES AND THAT'S A

2:55:52 BIG PIECE OF THE PUSH, RIGHT?

2:55:54 UM, BUT BUT I WILL SAY LIKE ONE

2:55:56 NUMBER THAT I HADN'T HEARD UH,

2:55:58 SO FAR UH, THROWN OUT IS, YOU

2:55:59 KNOW, THAT OLD SAYING LIKE AN

2:56:01 OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH,

2:56:02 UH, A POUND OF CURE, RIGHT?

2:56:04 UM, YOU KNOW, YOU INVEST $5,000

2:56:07 IN PREVENTION TO SUPPORT

2:56:08 FAMILIES.

2:56:08 UM, IT'S ESTIMATED THAT KEEPING

2:56:11 A FAMILY IN THE IN THE FIRST

2:56:13 YEAR KEEPING THEM FROM ACTUALLY

2:56:15 BECOMING STREET HOMELESS.

2:56:16 UM, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO

2:56:18 SEE BETWEEN 30 TO $85,000 FOR

2:56:21 THAT ONE FAMILY, UH, WITH

2:56:23 $5,000 WORTH OF PREVENTION.

2:56:25 THEN IF YOU.

2:56:26 SIT BACK AND YOU LOOK AT THE

2:56:27 AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE'RE

2:56:28 HAVING TO SPEND BECAUSE

2:56:30 OF MCKINNEY-VENTO UM UM YEAH,

2:56:32 THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE

2:56:33 HAVE TO SPEND BUSING KIDS FROM

2:56:34 OTHER COMMUNITIES THAT COME

2:56:35 INTO THE CITY.

2:56:36 RIGHT.

2:56:37 AND THE TRANSPORTATION COSTS

2:56:38 AND SO.

2:56:39 SO YOU KNOW, THAT'S A LITTLE

2:56:40 BIT MORE THAN WHAT YOU ASKED

2:56:41 FOR.

2:56:42 17 MILLION I THINK WAS THE THE

2:56:43 NUMBER THAT WE WE'VE.

2:56:44 HEARD.

2:56:45 YEAH THAT THE CITY SPENDS.

2:56:46 EXACTLY.

2:56:47 SO SO I WOULD SAY THAT

2:56:49 THERE'S PROBABLY AN APPETITE TO

2:56:50 STEP UP THE PREVENTION WORK UH

2:56:52 MUCH MORE QUICKLY.

2:56:53 UM AND.

2:56:54 AND AND NOT TO MENTION THAT

2:56:56 ONCE A KID DOES BECOME HOMELESS

2:56:58 ,AS I SAID, IT REROUTES THEIR

2:56:59 ENTIRE TRAJECTORY.

2:57:00 UM, EVEN.

2:57:01 KIDS WHO SPENDS.

2:57:02 SHORT PERIODS OF TIME

2:57:04 HOMELESSNESS UM, AFTER THEY

2:57:05 HAVE BEEN PERMANENTLY HOUSE FOR

2:57:07 SIX YEARS, THEY STILL, UH,

2:57:10 MAINTAIN THE ABSENTEE RATES UH

2:57:12 ,AS WELL AS SOME OF THE

2:57:13 ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ISSUES

2:57:14 THAT THEY HAD WHEN THEY WERE

2:57:15 HOMELESS.

2:57:16 RIGHT.

2:57:17 UM, AND SO IT.

2:57:18 STAYS WITH THE KIDS UNLESS

2:57:19 WE'RE ABLE TO WRAPAROUND THESE

2:57:20 SERVICES AND PROVIDE ADDITIONAL

2:57:22 SUPPORT AHEAD OF TIME.

2:57:24 SO THE ACTUAL COST TO OUR

2:57:26 COMMUNITY, UM, GOES MUCH, MUCH

2:57:29 MORE UH, BROAD THAN JUST.

2:57:30 THE.

2:57:31 80,000 85,000 A YEAR.

2:57:34 OKAY.

2:57:34 AND SO FOR JBL'S IN TERMS.

2:57:36 OF GETTING.

2:57:37 THE SERVICES.

2:57:39 EARLIER, UM.

2:57:43 I GUESS YOU KNOW WHAT'S WHAT.

2:57:45 DO YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS

2:57:46 FOR.

2:57:46 HOW WE CAN.

2:57:48 IS IT JUST IDENTIFICARE OR DOES

2:57:50 IT HAVE TO COME FROM THE

2:57:52 INDIVIDUALS YOU KNOW WHO ARE

2:57:53 EXPERIENCING.

2:57:54 THE YOU KNOW, THE ISSUES TO

2:57:56 REACH JBL'S YOU KNOW OR REACH

2:57:58 THE ACCESS TO COUNCILOR PROGRAM

2:58:00 LIKE YOU KNOW.

2:58:01 I MEAN HOPEFULLY NOT.

2:58:02 UM I MEAN I THINK THE IDEA

2:58:04 ABOUT PARTNERING WITH HOUSING

2:58:05 AUTHORITY LIKE THE PROGRAM SORT

2:58:07 OF PARTNERING WITH 2030 IS

2:58:08 WE'RE NOT GOING TO NECESSARILY

2:58:09 PARTNER WITH HOUSING

2:58:10 AUTHORITIES SO THAT THERE IS

2:58:12 SOMEBODY THAT THEY CAN IDENTIFY

2:58:15 LIKE WHEN THINGS ARE STARTING

2:58:16 TO GO WRONG OR HOUSING

2:58:17 PROVIDERS THAT THAT MIGHT MIGHT

2:58:20 BE AN EFFECTIVE WAY.

2:58:21 UM, I MEAN I PERSONALLY I THINK

2:58:24 UH I'M SURE THAT ALL OF THOSE

2:58:26 FOLKS FROM VEEPS ARE AWESOME.

2:58:28 I THINK IF I WAS A PARENT

2:58:30 EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS OR

2:58:31 ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE

2:58:32 HOMELESSNESS, I WOULD BE AFRAID

2:58:33 TO TELL THE SCHOOL PERSONALLY

2:58:34 BECAUSE I WOULD BE AFRAID ABOUT

2:58:37 LIKE DCF MAYBE BEING CALLED OR

2:58:39 BEING ASKED WHETHER OR NOT LIKE

2:58:41 IF I DIDN'T KNOW THAT

2:58:42 MCKINNEY-VENTO EXISTED I WOULD

2:58:43 BE AFRAID OF BEING ASKED

2:58:45 WHETHER OR NOT I STILL COULD

2:58:46 STAY AT THAT SCHOOL.

2:58:47 RIGHT.

2:58:47 SO I THINK THAT THAT IT WOULD

2:58:49 BE YOU KNOW, AND ALSO LIKE

2:58:52 REFERS PEOPLE TO US AND SO

2:58:53 SOMETIMES PEOPLE TO GET US

2:58:55 THROUGH THEM BUT UM, I THINK

2:58:57 THE MORE PLACES THAT PEOPLE

2:58:59 COULD MAYBE ENTER THE PROGRAM

2:59:00 IT'S NOT JUST THE.

2:59:02 SCHOOL WITH YOU.

2:59:02 OKAY.

2:59:02 YEAH.

2:59:03 I MEAN, MR.

2:59:04 SCHMIDT, THERE'S.

2:59:05 A NEED.

2:59:06 YOU KNOW.

2:59:06 IF.

2:59:07 YOU SEE THERE'S A, UH, A GAP

2:59:09 HERE AND.

2:59:09 UM.

2:59:10 LOOKING FOR WAYS ANYWAY, WE

2:59:11 TALKED ABOUT A COMMISSION.

2:59:12 THAT APPARENTLY.

2:59:13 EXISTED, BUT I MEAN, I FEEL.

2:59:15 LIKE WE CAN.

2:59:16 FORM A NEW ONE.

2:59:18 UH, AND LIKE THIS THE PANEL

2:59:20 OBVIOUSLY, UH, LIKE YOU

2:59:22 COVER ALL THE.

2:59:22 BASES AND.

2:59:23 UH, I LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING

2:59:25 CONTINUING THIS CONVERSATION

2:59:26 WITH.

2:59:27 EVERYONE HERE.

2:59:27 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:59:28 JUST TO ADD ONE LAST THING THE

2:59:32 $17 MILLION FIGURE THAT WE

2:59:33 MENTIONED IN TERMS OF WHAT'S

2:59:35 SPENT ON TRANSPORTATION, IF WE

2:59:38 WERE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO HOUSE

2:59:40 FOLKS IN THE CITY, THAT 17

2:59:43 MILLION WOULD TURN INTO 700

2:59:45 FAMILIES AND THEIR STUDENTS

2:59:46 BEING HOUSED.

2:59:50 YEAH.

2:59:51 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BREADON

2:59:53 .

2:59:53 THE SECOND ROUND OF QUESTIONS.

2:59:55 NO.

2:59:56 JUST WANTED TO THANK

2:59:57 EVERYONE.

2:59:57 THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT

2:59:58 CONVERSATION.

2:59:59 I THINK WE SHOULD KEEP IT GOING

3:00:00 AND KEEP KICKING THE TIRES AND

3:00:03 SEE IF WE CAN FIND OTHER NEW

3:00:05 SOLUTIONS AND UM, FIGURE OUT

3:00:08 WHAT WORKS AND KEEP KEEP DOING

3:00:09 THAT.

3:00:09 YEAH.

3:00:10 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL BEING

3:00:11 HERE TODAY.

3:00:12 THANK YOU.

3:00:13 THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:00:14 THANK YOU.

3:00:14 UM YES.

3:00:15 THANK YOU FOR NOT ONLY BEING

3:00:17 HERE BUT THE WORK.

3:00:18 UM I ALSO WANT TO THANK, UH,

3:00:19 THE ADMINISTRATION ON THEIR

3:00:20 PANEL.

3:00:21 I WANT TO THANK CENTRAL STAFF,

3:00:23 MY COLLEAGUES, UH, AND, UH, THE

3:00:25 LEAD SPONSOR COUNCIL WEBER FOR

3:00:26 BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND

3:00:28 LOOKING FORWARD TO CONTINUING

3:00:29 THIS CONVERSATION AND HOPEFULLY

3:00:31 WE'LL BE MEETING IN THE DPA

3:00:33 MONTANE KALI ROOM TO DIVE

3:00:35 DEEPER INTO THESE UM, INCIDENT

3:00:37 INSTANCE.

3:00:38 SO UH, THANK YOU EVERYONE.

3:00:40 UM, AND THIS HEARING ON DOCKET

3:00:43 NUMBER 0507 IS ADJOURNED.

3:01:04 UM.