Chair Stevens on TIL exits to permanent housing and length of stay
Stevens notes only 5% of crisis exits and 15% of TIL exits went to permanent housing in FY2025, asking about average TIL length of stay. Escamilla-Davies says the typical stay is 257 days, with housing navigators pursuing supportive housing, rapid rehousing, vouchers, and NYCHA options, though not all youth are developmentally ready for a lease.
In fiscal 2025, only approximately 5% of crisis services exits and 15% of TIL exits were to permanent or stabilized housing.
How long on average are young people remaining in TIL programs while awaiting permanent housing?
All those rights and obligations and understanding of those things.
So then they can make the important decision.
But to your point, we are in the middle of an incredible affordability crisis that impacts New Yorkers, and the mayor has been so eloquent on that crisis.
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But the typical length of stay in a TIL program is 257 days.
Not every young person who's discharged from a TIL is waiting for a permanent housing option.
Young people ages 16 to 24 are interested in a range of options.
Some of them will go home.
Some of them will live with a relative.
Some of them are staying with us temporarily while they get their situation down.
But every one of them eventually will need stable housing.
Not every one of them is in the position where they're developmentally ready to take on a lease at that moment.
So our housing navigators pursue all available options.
That includes supportive housing, referrals to...
rapid rehousing, to voucher programs, to NYCHA, to any available option for housing.
So we don't really want young people to wait, but we do understand that there are scarce resources, and we're working with our housing navigators to access that as quickly as possible.
Yeah, I mean, absolutely.
I mean, we're in a housing crisis.
Everyone's looking for housing.
And so I think that's why, one, even when we're thinking about our housing plan, we have to make sure that we're designating specific housing for them and giving more options.