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The cdc said it perfectly in the sense that food and hunger insecurity can affect us in many ways. We know what happens when we dont eat we drop off with attention and get cranky sometimes so the next point in importance really revolves about relieving family stress and less money out of the pocket providing the meals and not having to hurry to get food on the table and they know that the children are fed. And then also federal and state funding is available for child nutrition and currently in ...

We have spent a little time talking with the questions of transfers. And i think the questions of transfers is really a fu fundamental goal of getting residents in the right place. Whether its seniors who need more intensive housing. So they need to go from Public Housing to Senior Housing with ground floor adult bay. So they can stay independent. If its a disabled person in Public Housing who needs more assistance in terms of a Supportive Housing environment. How do we get them into the right h...

Concerned about our residents as far as the services they will receive. We are with them every day, and so we are very concerned about that. I think thats it. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, my name is sabrina cheeks, i work at the housing Voucher Program. I have worked there 20 years. I am here about the rad program, and i understand that its important to implement to improve the Housing Conditions for the tenants. But we know that our jobs will be eliminated. And we are rushed into ne...

Procedures followed. And to be followed through due diligence, and for most developers eviction is the first step. Thank you. I am nancy cross, and i am here to bring to your attention danger of having what sounds like a very Good Partnership between the City Administration and the developers. In relation to a project that is funded for the benefit of the public. And the public doesnt have any meaningful say about what is happening here. And i will illustrate by this Public Private partnership i...

The shelters in the city in relation to smoking. When you consider what the hotels want and the hotel users in the tourist trade. You say, we wish for the hotels to preserve 75 of their room dedicated to nonsmoking. Not what happens on separate floors with separate elevators. But when it comes to shelters and sros, we allow smoking and provide smoking patios. And we dont enforce no smoking in front of the shelter on polk street. And if you look at the statistics you feel, you find this is a prim...

Restitution. We would welcome adp to have restitution members to help them collect. The ideas of trauma speak directly to two requests we made in this budget process for the d. A. Office for our Victims Services unit. I mentioned that 90 of our victims come to us as result of a violent crime. What we do in that process, is make referrals to other agencies that may offer them subsidized or deferred payment for Mental Health treatment or crisis counseling. Most victims come to us in the worse mome...

For most victims. Most victims are low income and struggle and they for exasperated after a victim of a crime. And we can provide temporary relocation. And we make referral in referrals in that process and you can imagine that people that just had their entire family and life thrown into chaos as a result of a crime and additional burden to figure out housing. In what we know is an exceptionally challenging house other market. Those are two our requests that dovetail in what adp is doing. We thi...

I have worked there 20 years. I am here about the rad program, and i understand that its important to implement to improve the Housing Conditions for the tenants. But we know that our jobs will be eliminated. And we are rushed into negotiations and after four months i still dont know what will happen. Even though we had a meeting with management, they speak about the housing Voucher Program. And i work for them and that program is not well, and thats not said wooch. We have a program that is not...

Had with transferring tenants between buildings. And this is a concern in an emergency transfer when domestic crimes are involved. And the problem we have, the privately managed properties have their own screening criteria on top of those that Public Housing should have. And that is a barrier for a Domestic Violence survivor to transfer securely and to a safer place. And because of the developers involved, those problems will magnify and prevent more people from transferring into safe environmen...

Worse moments of their lives. What we would like to have is a social worker in our Victim Services office, to offer to people 10 sessions. What we have learned that most dont take us on that. It becomes too difficult to meet an advocate and share your story, and well send you out, heres a list of people that can help you. It feels abrupt and most people dont appreciate the brushoff in that process. What we seek to is just have one, we dont feel that it cover the entire case load but will improve...