Every eviction is just heart breaking, and they almost always have to do with -- always have -- children involved. |
HUD expects us to carry out our responsibilities to the federal government. If the leases are violated, we have to take action. This is our way of, I guess, putting out the message that a lease violation is very serious. |
In the past the family was allowed to stay in public housing in their unit until their appeal was heard by the court. |
One thing that comes to mind immediately is that we have a list of who gets those recently fixed units. So because they are helping does not mean that they go into them. |
We cannot let go now. These bills are going before the money committees now. We can lose it all if we're not there to the very end. |
We found that we incurred all kinds of other problems with this policy, and we have changed and it is fairly recent. |
We looked at every vacant site the state could access. |
We're very pleased to announce we have identified a spot. It's a vacant facility near the Pier One area. We will be inviting the groups that have been staying with the churches to come to this safe, secure place to sleep. It's an evening program. |