Chair Encarnación questions anti-harassment outreach with HPD and LGBTQ+ immigrant support

And as you know, we held a joint hearing with the housing committee to talk about some of the housing issues that we were seeing in the intersectionality around immigration and housing.

Do you know if any of the increased funding for expansion of legal services and executive plan will be involved in anti-harassment outreach in collaboration with HPD?

We don't have that information, but following that hearing, we have been working with them more on some of the gaps that you're hearing laid out and further strengthening the coordination that we have on the ground.

So thank you for hosting that because it was a very timely hearing.

Yeah, I really want to make sure that we are...

Keeping people housed.

I mean, it's one of the only ways that we can really make sure that, and properly housed, right?

Trying to make sure I get through.

Okay, I have two more things really quickly.

One, I really want to talk about supporting our LGBTQ plus immigrants.

You know, this is a subset of a subset that we cannot forget about and we have to keep uplifting some of the questions there.

So can you please provide an update on your collaboration with Director Taylor Brown of the new Office of LGBTQIA Affairs?

Specifically as it relates to how they meet the needs of our immigrant New Yorkers.

Yeah, I think you said it best that it is government's responsibility to support the most vulnerable, and sometimes we have communities that are far more vulnerable than that, and so I appreciate the question.

You know, MOIA has been meeting regularly with Director Taylor Brown of the Mayor's Office of LGBTQIA Plus Affairs to discuss next steps in implementing specifically Local Law 73, which was passed by the council last year.

In conjunction with the Mayor's Office of Equality and the Mayor's Office of LGBTQIA Affairs, we are, through that local law, there is a conducting a comprehensive assessment of the services that are currently available to

TGNC communities, specifically transgender and gender nonconforming, non-binary.

Intersex immigrants and the findings of this assessment will directly inform a phased implementation plan really designed to address and identify any of the service gaps across the city.

And just in the same vein as the last question, you know, I'm hoping that some of that translates into actual dollars there to support those programs, outreach, and things like that.