Chair Stevens Questions Collaboration with Office of LGBTQIA Affairs

Yeah, it was you know, I really want to make sure that we are uh keeping people housed.

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

Um trying to make sure I get through.

Okay, I have two two two more things really quickly.

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

Um, you know, this is a subset of a subset that we we cannot forget about, and we have to keep uplifting um 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?

Um, specifically as it relates to how they meet the needs of our immigrant New Yorkers.

Yeah.

Um, 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 I appreciate the question.

You know, Moya has been meeting uh regularly with uh Director Taylor Brown of the Mayor's Office of LGBTQIA plus affairs um to discuss next steps in implementing specifically local law 73, um, 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 um through that local law uh there is a uh conducting uh a comprehensive assessment of the services that are currently available to um it uh TGNC um communities, um, specifically um transgender and gender non-conforming, non-binary um intersex immigrants, and the findings of this assessment um will directly inform a phased implementation plan really designed to address um and identify any of the service gaps across the city.