Great article. I work for a non profit organization here in the Bay Area and during covid they got a contract with the city or county to staff and run one of the shelter in place hotels that housed the homeless. When the city started closing down most of the shelter in place hotels near the end of 2022 the organization that I work for was able to sign a new contract with the city and the same hotel to open it as a non congregate shelter. I'm curious how corrupt San Francisco handling of all of that was. Also sorry for my awful grammar.
I’ve written about motel shelter “demobilization” before and am currently working to oppose one in Reseda at a Homekey acquisition! Why are they closing a motel the State bought & paid for so the City can have it?? Well, the City basically doesn’t pay the nonprofit (although they have the option of seeking a cash advance of $250k) so they set a timeline where the nonprofit operates the motel for x amount of time, at which point the motel us transferred to the nonprofit. Since the City hasn’t been paying the motel all along, the motel shuts down because it now must negotiate an operating contract with the City. It’s not worth it to stay open and house the people “for free”, in their eyes. MESSED UP! Oppose the displacement cycle (which also lays off nonprofit staff, and I imagine that qualifies it for somewhat of an unemployment scheme…)
It sounds like your company is one of the better ones, TBH. Did they cycle the people out or retain the same people through the change in the booking/occupation agreements?
Great article. I work for a non profit organization here in the Bay Area and during covid they got a contract with the city or county to staff and run one of the shelter in place hotels that housed the homeless. When the city started closing down most of the shelter in place hotels near the end of 2022 the organization that I work for was able to sign a new contract with the city and the same hotel to open it as a non congregate shelter. I'm curious how corrupt San Francisco handling of all of that was. Also sorry for my awful grammar.
I’ve written about motel shelter “demobilization” before and am currently working to oppose one in Reseda at a Homekey acquisition! Why are they closing a motel the State bought & paid for so the City can have it?? Well, the City basically doesn’t pay the nonprofit (although they have the option of seeking a cash advance of $250k) so they set a timeline where the nonprofit operates the motel for x amount of time, at which point the motel us transferred to the nonprofit. Since the City hasn’t been paying the motel all along, the motel shuts down because it now must negotiate an operating contract with the City. It’s not worth it to stay open and house the people “for free”, in their eyes. MESSED UP! Oppose the displacement cycle (which also lays off nonprofit staff, and I imagine that qualifies it for somewhat of an unemployment scheme…)
It sounds like your company is one of the better ones, TBH. Did they cycle the people out or retain the same people through the change in the booking/occupation agreements?