from the San Francisco Human Services Agency (PDF) April 22, 2010
TENDERLOIN HOUSING
CLINIC
Supportive Housing Program Manager Scott Walton presented the request to modify the Tenderloin Housing Clinic grant.
On motion by Vice President Yamasaki, seconded and carried, the Commission granted authorization to modify the grant with
TENDERLOIN HOUSING CLINIC for Leasing, Property Management and Operation of the Mayfair Hotel in the additional amount of $ 3,755,566; during
the period of July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2015; for a revised total grant amount not to exceed $92,935,158.
that’s almost 100 million dollars in welfare grants for housing, a record amount. This meeting was in April, two months after the Board of Supervisors and the mayor approved 82 million. Meanwhile, Paul Hogarth continues to complain about budget cuts to THC
from the Chronicle in 1998
But there is plenty of construction going on at the hotel, located in the Tenderloin at 626 Polk Street. Other rooms and hallways are being renovated, and the lobby and mezzanine have been thoroughly remodeled.
Rosales, however, says the changes are not for her benefit, or for the benefit of the other longtime residents of the Mayfair. Students of the California Culinary Academy — the tony cooking school across the street from the hotel — will be the beneficiaries, she says. They are expected to start moving in shortly.
The academy recently bought the Mayfair, sold it to Chiatello, then entered an 18-month lease with Chiatello for 60 of the hotel’s approximately 80 rooms. The academy has a similar arrangement with the Leslie Hotel on Eddy Street, which is also owned by Chiatello.
Chiatello says he has no bias against the Mayfair’s long-term residents — as long as they are law-abiding and considerate of the rights of others. But he says drug dealing has been rife in the building, and he is determined to evict people who engage in illegal activities.
Shaw said the hotel will be a “gold mine” for Chiatello once students start moving in, because he will net about $435 a month for each room. The California Culinary Academy will pick up all incidental expenses.
12 years later, and now the Mayfair will be 100% welfare . No working people will be allowed to rent at the Mayfair, nor will students or any other citizen unless that person has a DHS worker (welfare). Another building has gone off the rental market
At the same time, Tenderloin Housing Clinic has and was being charged with caring for the mentally ill and substance abusers, when none of the staff at THC is qualified to do so. THC is simply a property management group and advocacy group
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richardmixon
9:59 PM on June 21, 2010
I work and get paid through City, State, and Federal funds at a local CBO health clinic and I have to say that it bothers me how so much of public policy is driven by those who show up with the most numbers and those who scream the loudest. Much of what this great City pays for is not qualified by research or best practice, it’s directed by an advocacy model that doesn’t always correlate with what’s best for the people the programs are designed to assist nor the greater City community. It’s a shame really.
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gothic
10:00 PM on June 21, 2010
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Correction – it was a great city. Hasn’t been since George Christopher was mayor.
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10:06 PM on June 21, 2010
i used to work for the city in health service and you are right on! well said.
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10:14 PM on June 21, 2010
Couldn’t agree more. I wish more people in both Govt. and private industry push to get things qualified by research andor best practices. It really is a shame.
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11:14 PM on June 21, 2010
As the great Ben Franklin feared the treasury has been opened to the mob. They will loot till there is nothing left.
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11:36 PM on June 21, 2010
And 200 years later Maggie Thatcher said the problem with socialism is you always run out of other people’s money.
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