Program is looking at the aids housing list which is a very outdated program which needs updating and there was very little in terms of identifying new resources either for building new Affordable Housing or as i would argue equally important in preventing homelessness so keeping people in their current housing. It is unlikely that someone in a rent control unit is going to be hard to find Something Like their rent control unit. One issue that we see very quickly is an issue where many people lived with hiv and aids have had private longterm Disability Insurance policies. Those policies have given them a higher income than people received ssdi or ssi. Those insurance policies will term out when they reach retirement age. It maybe 62 and 65, some 70. But many people, i will talk in a minute about how many, will see a very dramatic drop in their income such as they are no longer able to afford housing. Where we want to put them in a program where there is housing subsidy where they will
Access to the housing programs and you can only be referred through the department of public health. So all of that is really an important part of the process, all the Residential Care, facilities that are really part of the whole fabric of housing. So just want to stress that. Thanks. I have a comment coming from the bridge line. Hello. Hi, this is jessica layman from senior and disability action. Can you hear me . Yes. Wonderful. Im sorry i couldnt be here with you but thank you for this important discussion on this important issue. Im sorry. The issues that i wanted to raise was about training and on going assistance with using the data portal. I think making sure things are fully accessible is a really important step but even when they are as accessible as they can be we are going to have a lot of people who arent familiar with computers and going online and people who dont speak the language at all and are going to need some assistance. Im trying to figure out where people can go
To stress that. Thanks. I have a comment coming from the bridge line. Hello. Hi, this is jessica layman from senior and disability action. Can you hear me . Yes. Wonderful. Im sorry i couldnt be here with you but thank you for this important discussion on this important issue. Im sorry. The issues that i wanted to raise was about training and on going assistance with using the data portal. I think making sure things are fully accessible is a really important step but even when they are as accessible as they can be we are going to have a lot of people who arent familiar with computers and going online and people who dont speak the language at all and are going to need some assistance. Im trying to figure out where people can go and get assistance from either existing Service Providers and how will those Service Providers tv capacity to provide that one on one service needed and a conventions of possibilities and different places all over town where people go and get some of this assista
We are taking as an aggressive posture as we can with landlord attorneys letting them know that if they are going to be evicting folks they are going to have to fight at the top of their game and we have already seen a dramatic improvement in the results that we are able to get for our clients. I think landlord attorneys assumed that tenant attorneys would not have the resources to go to trial and they are seeing that is not the case any longer. It is a bit of a game changer. At the same time the number of eviction are rising so dramatically that it is overwhelming for our small office and we still need more resources in order to handle the housing cases that come in our door. I cant say that we save someones housing everyday, but we do save it every week and there is days where we save three peoples housing in a day and im incredibly proud of the work that our attorneys are doing. I think i have been around for each of the now four aids housing plans in the city. There was a time when
Get current updated information from all the housing providers. And by all of the housing providers, i mean not just the bmrs which are a very small set of Affordable Housing and not really affordable to folks that we are talking about, but Public Housing certainly the nonprofit housing brian as you mentioned the Affordable Housing that has a for profit developer that manages it but also a lot of the city run houses is only accessed by some internal referral mechanism. So the department of Public Health has access to the housing programs and you can only be referred through the department of Public Health. So all of that is really an important part of the process, all the Residential Care, facilities that are really part of the whole fabric of housing. So just want to stress that. Thanks. I have a comment coming from the bridge line. Hello. Hi, this is jessica layman from senior and disability action. Can you hear me . Yes. Wonderful. Im sorry i couldnt be here with you but thank you f