My one recommendation would be to make the housing suitable for the needs of the people you're trying to service. Ensure that it's transitional and consistent instead of having gaps and being piecemeal, which doesn't meet needs.
If you look at some of the reasons human trafficking was incorporated through the shelter system, there was already a build-in for them, being vendors of record, so it was easy to do payouts, get the money there and start the training. However, it didn't come with a lot of extra money. It didn't come with a lot of extra means.
The other thing is that if you start listening to what survivors are telling you about this from the perspective of domestic violence, interpersonal violence, gender-based violence and human trafficking, we know what the needs are. We've been making recommendations for a long time. If we take a look at all of the studies and all of the things that we've recommended in the past and start implementing them, it will be very helpful.
I was homeless until my brand new baby was three months old in 1988, and I'm now getting the same phone calls from girls that I used to make myself. That is abhorrent. That should not be happening.
