okay, so now i would like to ask emily cohen, deputy director with the department of homelessness and housing to the podium to present. thank you, deputy director. >> speaker: good morning, chair and community members. i'm emily and i use she her pronouns. supervisor dorsey before i jump into my presentation, i just want to thank you for that framing, i think we all probably every one in this room, wants psh to be the best it can be for our tenants for our operators and for the neighborhoods that we live next to. i want to thank you for starting us in that tone and to that end. i also want to thank the neighbors in the room and some of the residents of psh that i see and the whole community for coming out. it will take every one and i appreciate everybody's collaborative nature. i do want to start with a little ground setting through my years, there is often some misunderstanding. so i want to make sure that we're starting from the same place of understanding supportive housing. permanent house supporting housing or psh is the most affective and evidence we have. it is a robust interv

okay, so now i would like to ask emily cohen, deputy director with the department of homelessness and housing to the podium to present. thank you, deputy director. >> speaker: good morning, chair and community members. i'm emily and i use she her pronouns. supervisor dorsey before i jump into my presentation, i just want to thank you for that framing, i think we all probably every one in this room, wants psh to be the best it can be for our tenants for our operators and for the neighborhoods that we live next to. i want to thank you for starting us in that tone and to that end. i also want to thank the neighbors in the room and some of the residents of psh that i see and the whole community for coming out. it will take every one and i appreciate everybody's collaborative nature. i do want to start with a little ground setting through my years, there is often some misunderstanding. so i want to make sure that we're starting from the same place of understanding supportive housing. permanent house supporting housing or psh is the most affective and evidence we have. it is a robust interv

you want to call- >> yes, if emily cohen, deputy director can come. >> good morning chair, committee members. emily cohen, deputy director with homelessness and supportive housing and i first want to thank supervisor safai for calling this hearing. this topic is very near and dear to my heart and issue incredible we at the department of homelessness and supportive housing are incredible passionate about so happy to share the work we are doing and i also had the honor and privilege of meeting with many of the people in the room, the advocates, the providers and many families directly and really appreciate their willingness to share their experience to elevate what is going on in their lives to help us make reforms. really appreciate that context. i have been asked to provide a lot of information about the homeless response system in general. not necessarily specific to newcomer families, but we can get into that as we go through the slides. as you can see from the family demographics, these are families enrolled in the homelessness response system looking over 4 and a half years of da

you want to call- >> yes, if emily cohen, deputy director can come. >> good morning chair, committee members. emily cohen, deputy director with homelessness and supportive housing and i first want to thank supervisor safai for calling this hearing. this topic is very near and dear to my heart and issue incredible we at the department of homelessness and supportive housing are incredible passionate about so happy to share the work we are doing and i also had the honor and privilege of meeting with many of the people in the room, the advocates, the providers and many families directly and really appreciate their willingness to share their experience to elevate what is going on in their lives to help us make reforms. really appreciate that context. i have been asked to provide a lot of information about the homeless response system in general. not necessarily specific to newcomer families, but we can get into that as we go through the slides. as you can see from the family demographics, these are families enrolled in the homelessness response system looking over 4 and a half years of da

emily cohen, deputy director homelessness and supportive housing and here with you today for to seekhorization for resolution to enter into the second amendment to our grant agreement with abode service for operation of the flexible housing subsidy pool for formally homeless adults in the community. this proposed amendment was heard and approved by the homeless oversight commission march 21. the current term proposing to extend the term by one year and increase not to exceed amount by approximately $8 million to total of approximately $18 million. the flexible housing subsidy pool is a form of scattered site permanent supportive housing that is funded with local dollars, so for the tenant it operationalizing similar to a section 8 but it >> through house location assistance, including housing quality standard inspections, housing coordination, landlord services, subsidy administration and case management services. as noted in fiscal year 22-23, we served 85 clients from 72 households with over 95 percent of people still housed after 12 months. this program allowed many to stabilize,

my i'm emily cohen i'm a deputy directer of homelessness and supportive housing. and i appreciate your framing chair. i hope we can achieve that today and i hope i'm able to answer many of your questions. i'm also joined by our directer of housing who is going to help me answer your questions. so a little bit of overview although the supervisor gave many of this in the background. the approved fy23 budget included funding to include the permanent housing. in single room. cer if certificate. standard case management supportive housing. this was a really wonderful opportunity to improve at the strong at this board. prioritizing this implementation of the equity and service enhancement. we've implemented housing quality local, to ensure high quality housing. we have capitol investment and are moving forward with the notice of funding availability or nofa. in 2023-24, improvement funding was approved and released in 2024. we anticipate funding. we have, we have 13,300 units, 13,000 bedrooms. brick-and-mortar housing. vouchers that are used in the rental market with su

have found over the process of working on this issue is-again, this isn't directed at you emily, director cohen, there isn't acknowledgment of this population. they are not being seen. they are not being heard and not being acknowledged, so i think even in the conver sation that all most seemed like a bad skit from a comedy show- [laughter] sorry, but there isn't acknowledgment like take to the next step to declare there is a crisis and i think one thing that separates this population of people and that is what we started the conversation, there is a prioritization for people unhoused with children and babies and that is being missed here and want to bring it back to that. i think we have to acknowledge that yes, there is a rising just dat a ashows it, a rising newcomer community and we are capturing that on the main data point at the school district, but we have the acknowledge this community and allows us to make that adjustment where we are. i understand yes, there are single adults, there is chronically homeless and addicted, there is mental health issues, this is different population of pe

the center of the conspiracy and conversations and showing that michael cohen did not really have authority to act on his own. >> emily will put the sketch backup. it was such a moment and it really underscored the fact that whatever the jury hears about michael cohen, there will be some conflicting information on credibility. there is a lot of people who seem to be reporting out along with text evidence reporting out the same stuff cohen says. >> right. that seems to be what is crucial in terms of setting up: testimony. you have david packer, the jury starts out with him, now you have stormy daniels, you are creating a set of buffers for cohen's testimony and then you have the parts of the alleged conspiracy and hopefully by the time from the prosecutors point of view, hopefully by the time the jury hears from calling, they are set up to believe him because all these other people have already put the building blocks there for him to stand on. >> what do you make of how quickly the violating posts by trump came down once the judge actually said you know, you violated this and you might go to jail if you don't shape up

michael cohen just recently had a judge call him a serial perjurer. he's going to appear as the center of this case. >> emilyll hemmer, so much to unpack here. walk us through what we need to know in what stands out to you. >> bill: here's what i've learned. misdemeanors to felonies, which is what jonathan turley is talking about. there's a statute of limitations that expired for this case. did you know that? it was extended by a year because of covert rules. we live in new york. can you name a case in new york where that has applied? there are parking tickets or speeding tickets out there. andy mccarthy who andy mccarthy whose opinion i trust thoroughly as said earlier today. as a legal hallmark in america, the accused must know what they are accused of. this elevated felony, he was acting to commit another crime. the department of justice -- the southern district of new york had a chance to go after donald trump and they passed. what does that tell you? i don't know necessarily if bragg had to take this case. he could've waved it right through. you know what donald trump -- do you know what is voting perce