Chair Stevens on housing navigators and federal voucher termination crisis

I want to take a minute just to shout out our housing navigation teams, the internal team at DYCD, and then especially the team based at CBOs, and how nimble we've been to respond to available resources.

Some of these resources are scarce, and it's been,

you know, from the time that EHV vouchers were released to we had a CityFAPS pilot at RHY, we pivoted to

the NYCHA Housing Choice vouchers, that team is constantly tracking available resources, and not just vouchers, also just housing, and new housing that's coming online, and supportive housing, and other opportunities.

I really want to shout out the team, because we have been recognized by our agency's partners as really being very efficient and productive in getting young people through that process, which is not

simple, and into housing.

So I think DYCD, RHY providers have a great track record when the resource is available, and I know our team will be tracking this new resource at DSS.

I think a lot of that work right now, as we discussed in the last hearing, is around the federal voucher termination at the end of December.

And so our team had like roughly 400 plus young people placed in those.

In housing with those vouchers and have

Already placed how many of those?

We've already provided 309 out of the 474 with other housing options.

And so there's a crunch there that has to be done before the end of this year, and they're working really hard on that so that young people who landed in stable housing will be able to retain that.

I have some questions about the federal government stuff, too.

So don't you worry.

It's coming up.