Chair Hudson asks about lease-up times for CityFHEPS vouchers

Regarding Intro 100 in relation to requiring reporting of lease-up times for housing vouchers, what is the median time it takes for an applicant to lease up for the first time from shopping letter issuance to move in?

I think those are...

Thank you for that question.

I don't have medium, but I do have average or mean.

So I can give it to you for the last couple of years.

So starting with 2024, the average days was 244.

For 2025, the average days was 221.

And then year to date, it's 236 for 2026.

Year to date, 236.

So that's not...

Necessarily looking great, at least in comparing directly to 2025.

Is there a difference in the time it takes applicants to lease up based on whether they apply while living in community versus residing in shelter?

There is.

So when we think about that data, I'm going to go back to the time of application to processing on the city FEP side.

So you're not going to hear numbers in the hundreds here.

You're going to hear.

So for in community, it's about 21 days.

And for folks in shelter, it's 31 days.

And then that's that average of around 28 where we're doing better in the last couple of months with 24.8.

So those are the numbers that fit together there.

And it stands to reason that folks who are in community already have a unit established, and so they're often applying for CityFAP's voucher to stay in that unit, and so the timing is faster.

Okay.