Aldebol asks Lovaglio-Miller about housing instability and turnover
Aldebol asks whether housing instability drives turnover; Lovaglio-Miller says yes, arguing that housing insecurity leads to discipline and resignations, and that municipal housing would be both a recruitment and retention tool.
Thank you.
I really, I appreciate your testimony.
Do you believe that housing instability is a reason for high turnover in some of these titles?
So unfortunately, I will say yes.
Because when you have employees that don't know where they're going to lay their head or they're worried about paying rent or, you know, so many other things are top of mind, you're not getting the best employee when they come into work.
So then that ends up leading to disciplinary problems and things of that magnitude where the city will actually, you know, we do have a lot of people that resign, but we also have people that they terminate.
So some.
You know, not always because of their own power.
So I think housing is a big part of it.
And I think if the city offers it as a city employee, that's an incentive for people to come work.
That will be a recruitment tool, but it will also be a retention tool because they know that they have somewhere to live.
If I leave the city, I might not be eligible for this housing.
Thus, let me stay here because I have a place to live.
And I'd like to hear some of your ideas about the municipal housing program.
And we may not be able to discuss it at this hearing, but happy to sit down with you.
Absolutely.
As we have many times.
We have a housing program at DC 37 for our members specifically.
So I would love to have the opportunity to sit with you and bring some of them in to express it even more.
Yeah, that would be great.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.