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Case File GG-2026-001 · SF Housing · Status: Open

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

One homeless hotel room costs the city $2,776 a month — and the nonprofit running it keeps more of that money than the landlord. City Hall was told "only 2 evictions in 16 years." The court docket shows 115. They signed $379 million more anyway.

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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

Billed twice for the same room — and the second bill bought nothing.

Each room in the Tenderloin Housing Clinic portfolio bills the city $1,858 a month — then another ≈$918 on top for "support services." The city's own monitor graded that service work: 0% of tenants reached. That's roughly $17 million a year, billed and not delivered, sitting in the same packet supervisors approved 10–0 with no other bidder allowed. And it's one of ten findings in the case file.

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GG-2026-001 · GovGrift Research · Powered by Reckton
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One homeless hotel roomcity cost, THC portfolio $2,776/mo  
One shelter bedthe city's own top estimate $5,900/mo  

GovGrift math: city cost ÷ your rent. Room = $1,858 lease + ≈$918 services (BLA); bed = city's new-bed estimate, top of range. See the receipts →

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  2. GG-2026-003 MOHCD — $2.9B housing pipeline, one project "pre-construction" since 1995 Pending
  3. GG-2026-004 DCYF — $484M in youth grants with zero monitoring records Pending
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  5. GG-2026-007 SFMTA — $104.5M to a six-employee LLC formed in 2024 Pending
  6. GG-2026-008 COVID emergency contracts — $564M awarded with no competitive bid Pending
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