Stigma In Housing Access

Yeah, well, I don't know about tomorrow, but what we in, we would like there to be accommodation coordinators. that connected to the prisons who actually worked through some of that stuff for people, you know, so that they can get into housing, they can move the way and I mean I think to a certain extent some of the homelessness or housing issues that we have, things like transitional housing could be connected up. with that sort of thing if there was the right kind of connections going on between people as it were because there's different things need different types of housing needed and those kind of programs could help but you need someone in the prison to help connect them up to to it because many of them just don't get that that chance so that's one thing i also think that housing housing information about housing that's available needs to be provided to all of the... They need to get good information about what's available, what processes they need to go through and what help they can get, not just for the elderly family as well because a lot of them don't really know when they're in prison where they can go looking or who might help them. We thought that assessments should take place at some point about what kind of housing they need. and even including more supportive accommodation because it would pick out whether someone's got mental health and maybe should do some sort of addiction course or something so there's a whole range of different things in there that i could mention them all but those are some of the key ones and obviously having id When you leave prison, all sorted, having maybe already connected to MSD for benefits and obviously an increase in the steps to freedom grant, significant increase. All of those things were just basic things. If they could have their bank accounts set up before they leave, those are just basic things that would make it. So much easier for them to get past go really, you know.