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Tenderloin Housing Clinic: $640M flowed from SF since 2007; in the measured FY2019-24 window $107M reached landlords while THC kept $1,044 of each room's $1,858 a month GovGrift illustration · cumulative city payments vs. landlord pass-through, FY2007–FY2026

The city pays more for one homeless bed than you pay for your home.

One shelter bed: up to $5,900 a month. One homeless hotel room: $2,776 a month — and the nonprofit running it, Tenderloin Housing Clinic, keeps more of the money than the landlord who owns the building. When City Hall renewed the deal in May, it was told "only 2 evictions across 16 years." We pulled the Superior Court docket: 115 eviction lawsuits. On June 2, supervisors signed $379 million more of your money, 10–0 — no other bidder allowed.

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GG-2026-001 · GovGrift Research
Investigation Board · GG-2026-001 Live
THC Tenderloin H.C. 22 LEASES Master contracts REL. LLCs Real-estate ties PAC TIES FPPC filings $1,044 KEPT of each room's $1,858/mo 47 DOCS cited · hashed

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Tenderloin Housing Clinic: city paid $640M since 2007; THC keeps $1,044 of each room's $1,858 a month while people sleep on the street GG-2026-001

THC $640M — the city pays more per bed than your rent

THC · SF Housing
Pending Release Urban Alchemy / Mid-Market Foundation: $800M flowed through a zero-employee shell, 82% concentrated in one vendor GG-2026-002

Urban Alchemy mid-market $800M network

Urban Alchemy / Mid-Market Fdn. · SF Homelessness

Pending Release MOHCD: $2.9B in affordable-housing money, Plaza East still 'pre-construction' since 1995 GG-2026-003

MOHCD affordable-housing pipeline $2.9B

MOHCD · SF Housing

Pending Release DCYF: $821M signed out, $484M (half) to recipients with zero monitoring records GG-2026-004

DCYF monitoring vacuum $484M unwatched

DCYF · SF Youth

Pending Release SF Public Works: $30M+ paid to federally indicted contractors after their arrests GG-2026-006

Public Works paid contractors $30M+ after arrest

SF Public Works · SF Infrastructure

Pending Release SFMTA: $104.5M paid to 'Vortech Industries' — a 6-employee Daly City LLC formed in 2024 with $810K annual revenue GG-2026-007

SFMTA Vortech vendor $104.5M mismatch

SFMTA · SF Transit

Pending Release SF COVID emergency contracts: $925M in, $564M (60.9%) bypassed competitive bidding via emergency procurement GG-2026-008

SF COVID emergency contracts $564M no-bid

SF Controller · SF Emergency

Pending Release SF Reentry: $50.97M sole-source contract with 55% rearrest rate vs the Sheriff's claimed under-10% GG-2025-024

SF Reentry sole-source $50.97M, 55% rearrest

SF Pretrial Diversion / APD · SF Justice

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The GovGrift forensic pipeline. Four faceless silhouettes at an assembly line: Scout pulls the lead, Collector pulls the primary records, Analyst marks contradictions, Skeptic stamps VERIFY. Behind them, an investigative pinboard wall connects sources with red string under a faded SF City Hall dome.
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Scout

Finds the lead. News stories, social posts, public meeting notes, anything in plain sight that doesn't add up.

02

Collector

Pulls the actual records. Tax filings, state business records, Medicare data, city contracts, court documents.

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Analyst

Lines the records up and flags the contradictions. Vendors paid while the state lists them as inactive. City money that never shows up on the tax filing. Two vendor names sharing one tax ID.

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