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Erin Baldwin Day

22:48 - 23:24

“do you have a sense, you know, based on sort of this data set that we're building, what the, what the true demand is for shelter at this point? And I think looking at, looking at our utilization rates, I mean, and to your point that 93% is full or greater, it does make me wonder, you know, where, where should we be looking? What should our capacity, what should our real capacity be?”
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Did that answer your question? Yeah, that did. Do you, do you have a sense, you know, based on sort of this data set that we're building, what the, what the true demand is for shelter at this point? And I think looking at, looking at our utilization rates, I mean, and to your point that 93% is full or greater, it does make me wonder, you know, where, where should we be looking? What should our capacity, what should our real capacity be?

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