Hanif asks whether MOPD intervenes directly with landlords

I want to come back to some questions for MOPD.

Does MOPD...

ever intervene directly with landlords?

I know that you mentioned that you're mostly referring folks out to CCHR's team, but is there any,

does your constituent liaison ever more directly do interventions, speaking to landlords directly or employers, businesses?

Yeah, thank you for that question.

If a landlord reaches out to us about, for example, physical accessibility, we will engage with them and advise them.

We generally tell them to hire an accessibility specialist, but we'll provide guidance and that sort of thing.

But generally speaking, if there's a discrimination issue, we do refer that to CCHR.

There are some, you know, sometimes it's an elevator issue.

And for example, if it's in an HPD building, we'll, you know, get in touch with HPD and let them know.

Or DOB, depending on where, if a complaint has already been filed, like DOB is usually the first agency to be involved if an elevator is down.

But we'll also follow up and flag with HPD if it's in an HPD building.

And so those are some of the circumstances where we might be involved with landlords that aren't related to CCHR.

But that's generally the universe of that.

Got it.

So case by case.

And are there, would you say that these kind of direct interventions lead to

resolutions like the elevator getting fixed or a landlord successfully

understanding what they're supposed to ensure renters with disabilities know or whatever hypothetical situation.

We don't have information on those that we've referred to CCHR, but we do know, for example, in the elevator context, this is a recurring issue.

There are significant delays in getting elevators repaired.

And so we are actually in the process of working to form an interagency working group to address some of these recurring systemic issues.

So that's something that we're exploring right now and elevators is.

Number one agenda item.