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Board approves retroactive $117.2 million Tenderloin supportive‑housing contract after heated review of oversight failures
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Jan. 29 retroactively approved a long‑running grant agreement between the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, voting 8–3 to ratify the original contract and later amendments that raise the total to $117.2 million.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Jan. 29 retroactively approved a long‑running grant agreement between the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) and the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, voting 8–3 to ratify the original contract and two later amendments that bring the total authorized amount to $117,200,000.
The action, item 25 on the agenda, resolved an unusual situation in which the original 2014 agreement was executed while the contract was under the prior Human Services Agency and — city officials said — never presented to the board for authorization in violation of Charter section 9.118. HSH staff and the city controller described the gap as an administrative oversight discovered only after the department created a consolidated inventory and audit of inherited contracts.
Why it matters: The contract funds supportive services for 1,566 units of permanent supportive housing for formerly…
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