2008 San Francisco Civil Grand Jury Report On Homelessness Just Released

This excerpt comes from http://www.bluoz.com/blog/index.php?/archives/413-Civil-Grand-Jury-Report-on-Homelessness.html , which is a website blog run by a man named JEFF - a very sane and cool SF Tenant of a crime ridden SRO (single room occupancy hotel room). He lives in a room at The Seneca Hotel. SROs typically provide in-house supportive services - and Jeff's Room and many other buildings are owned/managed by a non-profit/for profit group called Tenderloin Housing Clinic (THC). THC is owned or directed by a purported 'multi-million' dollar lawyer or attorney named Randy Shaw. Who also has his own web newsletter distributed online. THC, DPH (SF Department of Public Health) & other non-profits and agencies are believed to be direct or indirect sources of funding (and stipends) for their own self appointed 'Collaborative' Tenant Representatives whom currently have 'slots' available to represent about 25 to 30 SRO Buildings around the City. Any type of arrangement of this nature, has inherent monetary and consideration 'conflicts of interest' which preclude them from truly assisting a 'tenant' by all objective methods available under the law and common practice. Given what we have seen in the City's SRO market, some highly aggressive, abusive and forceful tactics have allegedly been used by Landlords of SROs to force rent payments and some allegations of fake eviction processes are emerging. No man or woman can serve two masters. Either enforcement is postive and swift in favor of all San Franciscans or it is not just. If it is slowed down and reduced to nill by 'psuedo-tenant reps' who CAN NOT act independently and objectively because of their prestanding allegiance to their funders (THC, DPH et al.) period. Remedies withheld or delayed are remedies denied which causes immediate harm to the people of San Francisco. All People may choose to seek reparations for harm caused by intention or neglect. Our City has about 500 SROs with about 30,000 (home-less) San Franciscans living in them. What the City of San Francisco (like the City of New York) has 'kept hidden' by sweeping their homeless into SROs has just recently been blown out the door by this well done 'fact based' Civil Grand Jury Report. Goes to show you. A failed systems are what always happens each time a community fails to meet the needs of their entire community - including their elderly, poor, sick, disabled and homeless by NOT giving them good care, good food. They have routinely been denied the basic tools and resources required, in order to move towards greater measures of self-sufficiency and good health and longer life, for all. This MUST be done with proper standards, transparency inoperations and financing (funding with US Dollars aka public debt promissory notes) and verifiable accountabilty. Whenever our people are not 'on board' all homeless and housing systems (from inception through design, funding, implementation and verifiable delivery of all services and benefits) to make sure their needs are met safely, efficiently and promptly. For the past 15 to 20 years, most housing and homeless systems (including referral, case management, medical and vocational services) have been operating with little or no standards, open books or accountability -- the majority of all of these systems break down due to widespread abuse, neglect, corruption, rampant crime, violence and preventable chronic illness, life threatening disease and premature death. Poorly designed programs (any program not born of the clients and the communities themselves), policies and lack of proper enforcement (of current health, safety and human standards and law) serves only to impede commerce, threatens the public health and safety of ALL San Franciscans, waste of tax and community donated funds and causes un-necessary losses of life and revenue, for our entire Community. [ When shelters or SROs operate contrary to the law and humanity all others are harmed and put at greater risks and much higher expenses which could have been avoided if all programs were designed from client ideas and had included standards, enforcement, accountability and performance measurements to control all risks, costs and looses ]

clipped from http://www.bluoz.com/blog/index.php?url=archives/413-Civil-Grand-Jury-Report-on-Homelessness.html&serendipity[csuccess]=true Civil Grand Jury Report on Homelessness bluoz Thursday, July 17. 2008 Civil Grand Jury Report on Homelessness Just releases from the SF Superior Court direct PDF libk to the report and also CW Nevuis wrote and article about it this morning and be sure to see the comments There's a few people saying what I've been saying for years. There are legions of drugged out crazies that live in supportive housing such as tenderloin Housing Clinic who do absolutey nothing all day except hang out on the street and do the same thing they did before they were housed. And it took a Grand Jury to figure this out? Go back through the Tenderloin Housing Clinic section and you'll find plenty of the residents doing all sorts of nasty things on the street. See the SF Weekly article from last year because much of that is STILL going on, not just there, but in many THC supportive housing buildings links bluoz home Email live webcam Archives July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 Recent... Older... Tenderloin Housing Clinic