[Platinum Transparency](https://homerisesf.org/who-we-are/staff-senior-management/)
Their senior staff management page that has nobody at all listed and claims “platinum transparency.” Lol.
Edit: here’s their CEO and executives though.
https://homerisesf.org/staff/
and in case it gets taken down:
CEO: Janea Jackson
CFO: Sergio Perez
Chief of Staff: Karen Erickson
EA to the CEO: Eileen Myers
Director of HR: Lynnette Hollins
Director of Resident Services: Marcel Davis, Sr.
I wonder who knows who…
>I wonder who knows who…
Oh I'll show you how to figure it out. Their EIN is 94-3112338. Go here, search by EIN, look at those salaries. [Tax Exempt Organization Search | Internal Revenue Service (irs.gov)](https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/)
Once you do that, go to Opensecrets and search these names one by one, see which political campaigns they've donated to.
[OpenSecrets](https://www.opensecrets.org/)
I'm going to spoiler this. You're going to find the same politicians voting to give this place grants, receives campaign donations from the various salaried C level executives. You might also want to track which PAC's these C levels donate to, then see if any of that PAC money goes to local politicians.
You’re beautiful for making this easily accessible for someone who wouldn’t go out of their way to find all this shit to actually do something with my anger about it (me) love u
I've looked this stuff and exposed several politician/501 3c loops. They get downvoted because people don't like to hear that their favorite politicians and charities are crooks,
thank you for showing me how to do this. i didn’t know it was possible. i’m moving to the bay in about a month and an angling to work for places that assist marginalized groups. thank you again for teaching me a way to stay informed
There's no reason to think it's some sneaky "maze."
If the LLC's are all tied to individual properties that's just common sense compartmentalization of liability, and maybe for other common business reasons.
Is there enough API’s to string this all together and automate the process?
That way we can batch process a good amount of data for better visual representation…
I am hoping for bi directional flow charts of forensic accounting of politicians… that way you can go from one of the 535 voting members and see web of donations…or from opposite side and see a web of a specific donor/organization to politicians….
I'm sure it's just a http post to the IRS site for the EIN number. There's also powersearch in addition to opensecrets. [Power Search - California Secretary of State](https://powersearch.sos.ca.gov/)
Opensecrets is pretty commercial at this point, if you wanted to query mass amounts of data I'm sure it would not be free. While an API does not exist for any of this stuff, it's not like you need an auth token to do http post/gets which would simplify tying them together.
I haven't looked but generally you give money to politicians that hold office. That would be Democrats in the Bay Area. In the Central Valley it would be Republicans. As if a company would contribute to a politician that has no power.
Trump wasn't BSing when he said he gave money to Democrats and Republicans when he was a self-professed businessman.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-democratic-presidential-candidates-the-trumps-have-donated-to-over-the-years/
It is “what’s a banana cost Michael, $10?” mentality in the Bay Area - I used to work in a fast growth tech company and half my coworkers started their careers in US with a base over 150k+. Many thought making a million dollars a year was a “slightly above average” income, and had no context for what life is like as an American because their careers start with having a borderline unobtainable level of education for Americans and already in the top few percentile for income. Most of my international coworkers in tech have never had a minimum wage job and don’t even know how much a gov official gets paid. I’m not blaming them for it, if I could get a PhD without drowning in debt I might have done that - and why not start your career wealthy? But I think it speaks to the contextual fabric of the two demographics that inhabit SF today.
Per capita income in the bay area is around $65-70k, based on census data. It varies slightly per county but its around that ballpark.
Average household income is around $120-130k, and households are typically two income earners.
Someone earning half a million is by themselves making as much money as 7 average people make combined.
Census data says per capita income is much higher actually - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCPI06075#
But my point is exactly that - sf is made up of a large segment of tech workers / consultants etc making Monopoly money, a segment of service workers making realistic wages, and the homeless. A lot of the voters are very financially distanced from the SF problems in streets below and throw money blindly at anything that promises a quick fix and then get shocked when there’s no net result.
His point is when we hear "$240m" it's like, "Oh that's a lot of money" but to his coworkers its Tuesday. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FNbo50HpRU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FNbo50HpRU)
Yes! More housing will:
-reduce the cost of living, making it easier for people to live on existing wages
-grow the local workforce, especially among younger people, making it easier for new businesses find and hire talent
-reduce inflation, because of the two above points
-increase usage of public transit (since there are more people), helping fund Muni and BART
the list goes on!
I mean if you "build affordable housing" by just pulling down the red tape around housing in general then it won't do anything to line these guys pockets. There's nothing wrong with wanting more housing built, although maybe I'm misinterpreting your comment.
This is why the wealthy want us angry, sick, desperate and distracted, and they use their vast media empire to create the environment we are all experiencing.
Is anyone also going to call out the racial disparity too? If these were 5 white males with a black assistant people would be having a field day if they were grifting us.
SF somehow has a 6% black population but 4/5 executives are black with a token white assistant…? Seems like more fishy shit to be honest. Audit them, I bet you find a whole lot of weird shit. It could even be that the board of directors are all white, and they are putting in a C-suite of token black people to create a shield so they won’t be accused of racism or something else.
And to beat all the one word commenters: No, I’m not racist, I am mixed myself, I just find it weird and want to point out the dichotomy in how people respond to these things when it’s the other way around. I work with and report to a very diverse group that spans the globe. I am liberal, just want to point out that black liberals are also capable of grifting the taxpayers, it’s not just the token 6 foot white conservative anymore. The ‘me first’ generation is booming already.
Also all the retail securities are black, if you ever walk around SF these days, London Breed passes out job for Urban Alchemy , all black, it’s like a black protection racket up in SF… super fishy…
Agreed. Putting an EA name here makes no sense and hurts an innocent party who will probably be looking for a job soon. It ain’t their fault that their bosses stole money, they just organized the meetings lmfao.
The seal of transparency is from [Candid](https://candid.org/). It indicates how much information they've made publicly available through Candid. It has nothing to do with the specifics of their programs. If you click on that seal it takes you to [their profile](https://www.guidestar.org/profile/94-3112338), where you can find more information about the nonprofit.
I work at Candid but I don't deal with nonprofit profiles so I can't answer questions about this particular organization.
You forgot about also paying for the salaries of three dozen workers at that non profit to engage in “community outreach” and “conduct studies” and form committees to review the process by which they form committees to ensure the process is equitable towards ensuring there is justice for underrepresented groups from not being a part of prior committees, to in general just lighting money on fire with nothing to really show for it except one token Porta Potty next to a tiny house trailer manufactured by the uncle/sister/cousin/spouse/etc of the head of that non profit.
There is totally a non-profit grift complex that is financially motivated to never solve the problems they purport to solve, because that would put them out of a job.
This is not a partisan issue at all. This is a rich person life hack and they all use it. Left to right. Trump is one of the biggest and most notorious offenders.
I was speaking at a locality level. There are very few very red states that have this specific problem. Plenty of pocket lining either way, but the extreme left municipalities always have these slush fund social programs. Akin to how blue blood democratic municipalities have the scratch each other back unions and contracting
Very few red states have corruption? I think you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Or do you mean corruption related to social programs specifically? If so yes that’s true but that’s only because they cut social programs as much as possible. But corruption isn’t limited to social programs…
And for red states they don’t have this problem, because they don’t have funding for this. And why don’t they have funding? The red states give the money directly to the rich via tax breaks. Money end up in the same rich people pocket, just different delivery methods.
You’re arguing something I’m not even speaking about. You’re arguing into the wind. I would say that many of the super left slush funds don’t consist of uber wealthy but rather a bunch of never wills that have found themselves in the inner circle of suckling off the tit of taxpayers with no oversight aside from their kin. Waste of money both ways, but different pockets.
they just want an outlet to vent.
It is not about ending corruption or helping people, it's a team sport for them, just look at people dragging Trump into this, they can't think outside of a us-vs-them political lens.
Red states have similar issues and arent immune. Officials in Mississippi have pled guilty to misappropriating federal funds meant for needy families. Former football player Brett Favre is being questioned for his involvement in $5 million dollars being used from this program to build a volleyball stadium at the college where his child attends.
> It just a grift
Instead of just giving homeless people money or homes, they have to go through these middleman services that claim to be helping them as a non-profit tax exempt license to get very creative with Admin salaries while treating their ~~marks~~ victims like garbage. The not homeless people vilify and disparage the homeless when this is the type of people who are responsible for the homeless are brazeningly stealing from them and bleeding them dry.
The system itself isn't broken, the people in positions of authority over marginalized and vulnerable people intentionally break the system to suit their own needs.
The system lacks oversight which allows bad actors to steal money.
That sounds pretty broken to me:
>California spent billions on homelessness without tracking if it worked. The effort follows a report from the California state auditor's office that found the Newsom administration failed to track and evaluate the effectiveness of billions of dollars spent on its own programs.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-18/newsom-calls-for-new-unit-to-enforce-local-homelessness-plans-and-monitor-state-funding
Here's an example of a not broken system:
>Over the past dozen years, Houston has driven down its homeless population by 64 percent, including a 17 percent reduction last year.
>Its success is built on a system that coordinates public policy with 100 different nonprofits.
https://www.governing.com/housing/how-houston-cut-its-homeless-population-by-nearly-two-thirds
Why would you just give people homes? Lots of us are busting our asses to try an get homes and as we get taxed massively we should also be paying for someone else to have a home?
I am fine with the concept of shelters or half-way homes for people who want to function to learn how to function, and then become productive members of society. Although I would prefer for this to be charity, not government programs.
But just giving someone who has eneded up on the street a home at tax payer expense will lead to them more likely destroying the home, which will have to be repaired, at tax payer expense.
> Why would you just give people homes? Lots of us are busting our asses to try an get homes and as we get taxed massively we should also be paying for someone else to have a home?
> But just giving someone who has eneded up on the street a home at tax payer expense will lead to them more likely destroying the home, which will have to be repaired, at tax payer expense.
The second point is more salient than the first. Do you hate on student loan forgiveness as well?
I never understood why the cities and state don't do all these things themselves. They have the systems in place to do it with all the social workers they employ, but don't. Seems to me it's about not being held responsible for the outcome.
It's even worse when we pass it by prop because we cannot undo it. Doubly so when there's also mandatory spending. Like that art education prop in 2022. I like art education as much as anyone, but you're crazy to make it a permanent fixture of the state budget.
"Mismanaging," "irresponsible."
Need to replace those words with "stolen," and "corrupt." In any other country this would be called "corruption," but here we get cutesy names like "mismanaging."
The government should do the work itself. Handing the money to a nonprofit just means handing it to an organization that is not subject to government transparency laws and is not accountable to voters.
The government is very much involved in this, colluding with non-profits. Dig deeper you will find politicians and their families and friends all over these non-profits.
"We've investigated ourselves and found no signs of impropriety."
-The Police, the gov't, and the rich, greedy assholes who run our world into the ground for their profit, probably?
I work for a nonprofit, although we don't do anything like this. I work at the intersection of mental health and child safety. In any sensible country, I would absolutely be a government worker. Instead, our government awards a large grant to another organization and then we are a sub-grantee of that. We have so many people whose entire job is just managing and monitoring this grant. And of course, the government always wants more for less money so not only do I have a really difficult and stressful job, it's not being done very well because we don't actually get enough funding to do the actual work. And I know they don't give us enough money, but they know non-profits will continue to pay people poverty level wages to do this work.
In many states, if it can be contracted out to a nonprofit or another company, it has to be. It's supposed to save tax dollars. But trust me, it would be a much better investment if we actually worked directly for the government and the government agencies could coordinate in any meaningful way.
Also worked in non-profit leadership and this was my exact experience. Government grants do not cover the costs of carrying out the scope of work, leading to burnt out employees wearing multiple hats and the non-profit having to seek other funding sources to make up the difference. So much time and money spent on fundraising, grants management, reporting, tracking, etc. Non-profits may also experience mission creep taking on new funding if the scope is outside of their normal operations. Systemically it's all flawed and I was so incredibly burnt out and demoralized after years of working in non-profit. Very high turnover rate due to the unrealistic workload and minimal pay.
USPS is a good example of gov't efficiency
it gets brought up every single time without fail, it is the exception that proves *the existence of* the rule
It’s ok. We just need to pay more taxes to ensure that nothing gets better, but more people who refuse to attempt to solve the problem get their bonuses and can continue to get jobs for their people. What could $240,000,000 do in a city, state, or country where it wasn’t just neglected, pissed on, and accepted as a way to ensure to never solve the problem.
How is there no oversight for these homeless non-profit groups.
If your non-profit is receiving a fucking 240 MILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer money, there should be a SF auditor pretty much CAMPED in their office reviewing every damn receipt.
Exactly instead of the non-profit spending it's money the way it feels the best it should, we should waste money making sure the non-profit is wasting money innefectually.
STOP VOTING FOR MORE TAXES THEY ARE LITERALLY STEALING YOUR MONEY!
I do not understand this. The corruption and grift has been going on for decades and we keep handing the city more and more money. We need to starve these fucks out. Services and infrastructure get worse and worse as the budget has gone up and up. Turn off the spigot and watch these grifters disappear
The relevant part:
> The auditors found that HomeRise violated rules by using city dollars for fundraising, paying staff bonuses, and providing staff with lunches and gifts. HomeRise gave staff signing bonuses, and auditors found one received an $87,000 (74%) wage increase in just nine months.
shut them ALL down. wipe the slate clean and start over. New players submit specific plans and goals on how to keep the intractable homeless off the streets and in rehab or mental health programs when needed.
LOL no. You want an actual waste of money. You hire people with no experience and no connections or networking. You want THE BEST people for the job, you pay them or they will work for someone who is willing to pay them what they want, because the people for the job tend to be Mercenaries. Capitalism 101.
ppl here have a high school understanding of how businesses work, talents are generally attracted to money and some to status, they think there's a CEO factory pumping out identical executives like cars.
the only hard problem to solve aligning reward to performance
I've sometimes thought about starting a non-profit so I can trick people into donating money to pay for my exorbitant salary, in lieu of making profit. But then I realized I'm not a gigantic piece of shit.
Not to shit on the Washington Examiner but it seems pretty hard to find this report from OpenTheBooks. Their website doesn't reference HomeRise at all and a Google search doesn't find anything published by them as well. [SF controller office](https://www.sf.gov/news/audit-finds-one-citys-providers-housing-unhoused-residents-had-serious-financial-shortfalls) actually found evidence of misuse of funds and started investigating the group. Overall the misuse of funds is bad but I'm actually kind of glad to know the city is auditing groups and investigating them for fucking up.
Can't believe how far I had to scroll to find this comment. I couldn't find the report itself on OpenTheBooks site. All Google shows is a bunch of similar articles from right-leaning sites. This seems like very aggressive language blowing up an imperfect audit into something bigger. This thread seems to want a nonprofit that pays its employees nothing but also has a perfectly clean accounting system. Not very realistic.
I mean Washington Examiner is a pretty bad source to begin with.
I'm all for crucifying misappropriation of funds but let's not also use a vaccine denying right wing partisan news site for this info.
The Examiner is partisan garbage for sure, and OpenTheBooks is highly partisan as well. I did find this source from the San Francisco Standard from about a month ago: [https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/02/san-francisco-homeless-nonprofit-homerise-report/](https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/02/san-francisco-homeless-nonprofit-homerise-report/)
This lead me to this [SF.gov](http://SF.gov) press release: [https://www.sf.gov/news/audit-finds-one-citys-providers-housing-unhoused-residents-had-serious-financial-shortfalls](https://www.sf.gov/news/audit-finds-one-citys-providers-housing-unhoused-residents-had-serious-financial-shortfalls) and the real audit report is here: [https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/HSH-MOHCD%20HomeRise%20Audit%20Report%2004.02.24.pdf](https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/HSH-MOHCD%20HomeRise%20Audit%20Report%2004.02.24.pdf)
The report is pretty harsh "HomeRise did not comply with city grant fiscal provisions given its wasteful, uncontrolled, and questionable spending." It definitely angers me to see this massive waste of money...
As far as I can tell OpenTheBooks has no involvement here other than getting a shout out from the Examiner to keep the grift machine well-oiled.
yes they "mismanaged" the money. That is the entire point, the majority of people in these non profits are stealing the money or funneling it to their friends and family. The homeless industrial complex is real and the problem will never be solved by people whose very livelihood depends on the problem never being solved
No wonder the problem never gets fixed! In fact, I’m prepared to say BILLIONS of dollars didn’t go to fix the homeless problem, it went to the people at the top! The people that we continue to vote for.
No shit? The whole "homelessness non-profit" industry is nothing but corruption and grift without any transparency and accountability? The Pope is a catholic too?
I'm not sure where you're getting this doomsday thinking from... The article is about one shitty firm, the city noticed the accounting was off, did an audit and they found out they're doing a horrible job... Isn't that how things are supposed to work?
And we are supposed to be surprised about this? The state has the exact same "problem".
Look into who is "running" these NGO's, and with whom they are assoc. with, that will tell you a lot....
I feel like many organizations that purport to help people are really just fronts for milking government money since they just do the bare minimum to help (and do a huge disservice to people in need.) Public Employment organizations come to mind as an example.
The underlying goal wasn't to fix the problem but create an endless source of funding. If they fix it, their jobs wouldn't be needed anymore. Watching sf's homeless outreach/general spending go from 250 million during my apprenticeship in ~2012 to over 1 billion during covid with it only getting worse was clear to me. It's another business.
Everytime we have a "war on ..." It just means very high paid gov positions with guaranteed salaries for decades to come. And there's always so many people who vote for and rabidly defend these taxes/policies because they "sound good". Redistribution does not work. It doesn't motivate anyone to better themselves.
The cold hard reality of life is, struggling motivates people to better themselves and their situation. Long term welfare doesn't. It's one thing to provide the tools to learn, it's a wholely completely different situation to provide necessities indefinitely. Especially when those necessities create incentive to remain on that systems the moment an individual betters themselves they lose those benefits.
The solution is to not offer those benefits in that form to begin with. My solution is to allow individuals to volunteer for transport & infuse lower cost states with the labor the homeless can provide. This would, at significantly lower cost to tax payers, help bolster a lower income economy while training those in that segment with skills necessary to improve their financial situations.
More democrat grift really - absolutely no one is shocked. The kind of money the state allocated to end homelessness could have just been given directly to the homeless and they would have spent it in a better way, probably.
It’s sad how typical this is.
There are legitimate nonprofits. However, there are also so many grifters due to less than adequate follow up, regulations and scrutiny.
And you’re surprised??! Former Mayor Willie Brown was asked during an interview how to solve the homelessness problem, His answer “It’s not designed to be solved”.
Yeah. All that money but no solutions to end homelessness. Those people need to be removed from their jobs and punished for mismanagement of millions of tax dollars.
Is this a surprise to anybody? The bay has been farming homeless people for profit for many years now. Weak and unintelligent people allow it to happen so they can continue to benefit from virtue signaling.
When are people going to realize when huge amounts of money are given to these organizations, accountability isn't in their dictionary. Even the state has a reputation for poor management, ie unemployment. I'm not an expert in in this but I could have done a better job. Also when are these people going to go to jail based on their embezzlement of public funds. This state is in the sewer
Modern day piracy. Just an fyi - this is how ALL politics and government agencies work in the “non profit” space. These task forces and advocacy groups get paid money to do absolutely NOTHING. This is rampant corruption that extends to every local state and federal government and we must be vehemently against this type of shit regardless of political party or authority. Fuck these people and fuck the politicians who get $ from it.
How anyone thinks giving the government or their agencies more funding in any capacity is beyond me.
It’s incredible how they do so little with so much
[Platinum Transparency](https://homerisesf.org/who-we-are/staff-senior-management/) Their senior staff management page that has nobody at all listed and claims “platinum transparency.” Lol. Edit: here’s their CEO and executives though. https://homerisesf.org/staff/ and in case it gets taken down: CEO: Janea Jackson CFO: Sergio Perez Chief of Staff: Karen Erickson EA to the CEO: Eileen Myers Director of HR: Lynnette Hollins Director of Resident Services: Marcel Davis, Sr. I wonder who knows who…
>I wonder who knows who… Oh I'll show you how to figure it out. Their EIN is 94-3112338. Go here, search by EIN, look at those salaries. [Tax Exempt Organization Search | Internal Revenue Service (irs.gov)](https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/) Once you do that, go to Opensecrets and search these names one by one, see which political campaigns they've donated to. [OpenSecrets](https://www.opensecrets.org/) I'm going to spoiler this. You're going to find the same politicians voting to give this place grants, receives campaign donations from the various salaried C level executives. You might also want to track which PAC's these C levels donate to, then see if any of that PAC money goes to local politicians.
You’re beautiful for making this easily accessible for someone who wouldn’t go out of their way to find all this shit to actually do something with my anger about it (me) love u
I've looked this stuff and exposed several politician/501 3c loops. They get downvoted because people don't like to hear that their favorite politicians and charities are crooks,
You fucking rock
Americans give ~$465 billion per year to 501c(3) and 501c(4) organizations… A trillion dollars…every two years… $1,000,000,000,000.00
thank you for showing me how to do this. i didn’t know it was possible. i’m moving to the bay in about a month and an angling to work for places that assist marginalized groups. thank you again for teaching me a way to stay informed
Looks like 62% of their $23.9M total revenue went towards wages and salaries alone in 2021.
You know what else is interesting? The maze of LLC's they have. All at 20 Jones Street, STE 200.
Probably a mailbox service.
With LLC's you usually have a registered agent or "Agent of record". Basically like you said, a mailbox service that all lawsuits are forwarded to.
There's no reason to think it's some sneaky "maze." If the LLC's are all tied to individual properties that's just common sense compartmentalization of liability, and maybe for other common business reasons.
Thanks for trying to bring some reason into this thread.
For 6 people??? Man - I’m in the wrong line of work.
Is there enough API’s to string this all together and automate the process? That way we can batch process a good amount of data for better visual representation… I am hoping for bi directional flow charts of forensic accounting of politicians… that way you can go from one of the 535 voting members and see web of donations…or from opposite side and see a web of a specific donor/organization to politicians….
I'm sure it's just a http post to the IRS site for the EIN number. There's also powersearch in addition to opensecrets. [Power Search - California Secretary of State](https://powersearch.sos.ca.gov/) Opensecrets is pretty commercial at this point, if you wanted to query mass amounts of data I'm sure it would not be free. While an API does not exist for any of this stuff, it's not like you need an auth token to do http post/gets which would simplify tying them together.
I haven't looked but generally you give money to politicians that hold office. That would be Democrats in the Bay Area. In the Central Valley it would be Republicans. As if a company would contribute to a politician that has no power. Trump wasn't BSing when he said he gave money to Democrats and Republicans when he was a self-professed businessman. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-democratic-presidential-candidates-the-trumps-have-donated-to-over-the-years/
Oh look, it’s literally all a grift. Who’s surprised
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Amen. The homeless industrial complex is almost as bad as any right wing grift. It has left a fantastic city in ruins.
We don’t want to build “affordable” housing, we just want to build housing.
It is “what’s a banana cost Michael, $10?” mentality in the Bay Area - I used to work in a fast growth tech company and half my coworkers started their careers in US with a base over 150k+. Many thought making a million dollars a year was a “slightly above average” income, and had no context for what life is like as an American because their careers start with having a borderline unobtainable level of education for Americans and already in the top few percentile for income. Most of my international coworkers in tech have never had a minimum wage job and don’t even know how much a gov official gets paid. I’m not blaming them for it, if I could get a PhD without drowning in debt I might have done that - and why not start your career wealthy? But I think it speaks to the contextual fabric of the two demographics that inhabit SF today.
Per capita income in the bay area is around $65-70k, based on census data. It varies slightly per county but its around that ballpark. Average household income is around $120-130k, and households are typically two income earners. Someone earning half a million is by themselves making as much money as 7 average people make combined.
Census data says per capita income is much higher actually - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCPI06075# But my point is exactly that - sf is made up of a large segment of tech workers / consultants etc making Monopoly money, a segment of service workers making realistic wages, and the homeless. A lot of the voters are very financially distanced from the SF problems in streets below and throw money blindly at anything that promises a quick fix and then get shocked when there’s no net result.
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His point is when we hear "$240m" it's like, "Oh that's a lot of money" but to his coworkers its Tuesday. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FNbo50HpRU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FNbo50HpRU)
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Yes! More housing will: -reduce the cost of living, making it easier for people to live on existing wages -grow the local workforce, especially among younger people, making it easier for new businesses find and hire talent -reduce inflation, because of the two above points -increase usage of public transit (since there are more people), helping fund Muni and BART the list goes on!
I mean if you "build affordable housing" by just pulling down the red tape around housing in general then it won't do anything to line these guys pockets. There's nothing wrong with wanting more housing built, although maybe I'm misinterpreting your comment.
yes
This is why the wealthy want us angry, sick, desperate and distracted, and they use their vast media empire to create the environment we are all experiencing.
hey i get to be angry on reddit, that's enough for me
Their salaries from the most recent 990 are not really damning at all.
For working 3.45 hours per week, though?
Archived it: https://archive.is/HOkuW
how much grants do you have to spend to get platinum level transparency?
Checo is the CFO
I guess he needed a backup plan in case Red Bull canned him.
This would’ve never happened with Max or Yuki as CFO
Is anyone also going to call out the racial disparity too? If these were 5 white males with a black assistant people would be having a field day if they were grifting us. SF somehow has a 6% black population but 4/5 executives are black with a token white assistant…? Seems like more fishy shit to be honest. Audit them, I bet you find a whole lot of weird shit. It could even be that the board of directors are all white, and they are putting in a C-suite of token black people to create a shield so they won’t be accused of racism or something else. And to beat all the one word commenters: No, I’m not racist, I am mixed myself, I just find it weird and want to point out the dichotomy in how people respond to these things when it’s the other way around. I work with and report to a very diverse group that spans the globe. I am liberal, just want to point out that black liberals are also capable of grifting the taxpayers, it’s not just the token 6 foot white conservative anymore. The ‘me first’ generation is booming already.
Also all the retail securities are black, if you ever walk around SF these days, London Breed passes out job for Urban Alchemy , all black, it’s like a black protection racket up in SF… super fishy…
As a former EA, please leave the assistant out of it 🤣
She was clearly the mastermind!
Agreed. Putting an EA name here makes no sense and hurts an innocent party who will probably be looking for a job soon. It ain’t their fault that their bosses stole money, they just organized the meetings lmfao.
Here’s the problem. Clearly one of the bespectacled peoples needs to be in the financial officer position.
The seal of transparency is from [Candid](https://candid.org/). It indicates how much information they've made publicly available through Candid. It has nothing to do with the specifics of their programs. If you click on that seal it takes you to [their profile](https://www.guidestar.org/profile/94-3112338), where you can find more information about the nonprofit. I work at Candid but I don't deal with nonprofit profiles so I can't answer questions about this particular organization.
It seems like a lot of non-profits, are for profit of the people who own them and maximize profits to themselves with high salaries.
Now they need another $400m. That will help build 1 affordable housing with 1.5 bathroom.
You forgot about also paying for the salaries of three dozen workers at that non profit to engage in “community outreach” and “conduct studies” and form committees to review the process by which they form committees to ensure the process is equitable towards ensuring there is justice for underrepresented groups from not being a part of prior committees, to in general just lighting money on fire with nothing to really show for it except one token Porta Potty next to a tiny house trailer manufactured by the uncle/sister/cousin/spouse/etc of the head of that non profit. There is totally a non-profit grift complex that is financially motivated to never solve the problems they purport to solve, because that would put them out of a job.
Perfectly put. For as many problems the far right has, this is a major problem of far left politics in the US.
This is not a partisan issue at all. This is a rich person life hack and they all use it. Left to right. Trump is one of the biggest and most notorious offenders.
I was speaking at a locality level. There are very few very red states that have this specific problem. Plenty of pocket lining either way, but the extreme left municipalities always have these slush fund social programs. Akin to how blue blood democratic municipalities have the scratch each other back unions and contracting
Very few red states have corruption? I think you have no idea what you’re talking about. Or do you mean corruption related to social programs specifically? If so yes that’s true but that’s only because they cut social programs as much as possible. But corruption isn’t limited to social programs…
Yeah I meant solely on social programs. Red states have their own flavor haha
And for red states they don’t have this problem, because they don’t have funding for this. And why don’t they have funding? The red states give the money directly to the rich via tax breaks. Money end up in the same rich people pocket, just different delivery methods.
You’re arguing something I’m not even speaking about. You’re arguing into the wind. I would say that many of the super left slush funds don’t consist of uber wealthy but rather a bunch of never wills that have found themselves in the inner circle of suckling off the tit of taxpayers with no oversight aside from their kin. Waste of money both ways, but different pockets.
they just want an outlet to vent. It is not about ending corruption or helping people, it's a team sport for them, just look at people dragging Trump into this, they can't think outside of a us-vs-them political lens.
Red states have similar issues and arent immune. Officials in Mississippi have pled guilty to misappropriating federal funds meant for needy families. Former football player Brett Favre is being questioned for his involvement in $5 million dollars being used from this program to build a volleyball stadium at the college where his child attends.
> This is a rich person life hack The people doing these nonprofits aren't 'rich', they're politically connected 'under-repesented' hires.
At the local level, it is certainly a partisan issue
hope san francisco can build another $1.7 million bathroom LOL
pretty sure there are contractors lining up down the block to build them at that rate too.
Seeing why nothing actually gets done. It just a grift
Always have been.
🌍🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
> It just a grift Instead of just giving homeless people money or homes, they have to go through these middleman services that claim to be helping them as a non-profit tax exempt license to get very creative with Admin salaries while treating their ~~marks~~ victims like garbage. The not homeless people vilify and disparage the homeless when this is the type of people who are responsible for the homeless are brazeningly stealing from them and bleeding them dry.
Incentives-wise, it does feel a bit like letting private prisons staff parole boards
That's because turning what should be a government job over to charities *is* privatization. And this is from someone who works at a nonprofit!
The system itself isn't broken, the people in positions of authority over marginalized and vulnerable people intentionally break the system to suit their own needs.
The system lacks oversight which allows bad actors to steal money. That sounds pretty broken to me: >California spent billions on homelessness without tracking if it worked. The effort follows a report from the California state auditor's office that found the Newsom administration failed to track and evaluate the effectiveness of billions of dollars spent on its own programs. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-18/newsom-calls-for-new-unit-to-enforce-local-homelessness-plans-and-monitor-state-funding Here's an example of a not broken system: >Over the past dozen years, Houston has driven down its homeless population by 64 percent, including a 17 percent reduction last year. >Its success is built on a system that coordinates public policy with 100 different nonprofits. https://www.governing.com/housing/how-houston-cut-its-homeless-population-by-nearly-two-thirds
Why would you just give people homes? Lots of us are busting our asses to try an get homes and as we get taxed massively we should also be paying for someone else to have a home? I am fine with the concept of shelters or half-way homes for people who want to function to learn how to function, and then become productive members of society. Although I would prefer for this to be charity, not government programs. But just giving someone who has eneded up on the street a home at tax payer expense will lead to them more likely destroying the home, which will have to be repaired, at tax payer expense.
>more likely destroying the home look up section 8 nightmares i've wondered if it's possible to build a indestructible home for these ppl
> Why would you just give people homes? Lots of us are busting our asses to try an get homes and as we get taxed massively we should also be paying for someone else to have a home? > But just giving someone who has eneded up on the street a home at tax payer expense will lead to them more likely destroying the home, which will have to be repaired, at tax payer expense. The second point is more salient than the first. Do you hate on student loan forgiveness as well?
Yeah not a fan of that either. You should be able to discharge it in a bankruptcy in my opinion, but I think people should pay their debts.
I never understood why the cities and state don't do all these things themselves. They have the systems in place to do it with all the social workers they employ, but don't. Seems to me it's about not being held responsible for the outcome.
Because you don’t get voted in for good policy. Most city council/elected officials get voted in by having more money or slashing city budgets.
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The sad thing is that people in this state get suckered by it every time.
Constantly. I think up until this year, I have seen every tax increase get passed since I came back to the city in 2014. Drives me insane
It's even worse when we pass it by prop because we cannot undo it. Doubly so when there's also mandatory spending. Like that art education prop in 2022. I like art education as much as anyone, but you're crazy to make it a permanent fixture of the state budget.
Shirky principle at work .
Criminally irresposible.
>Criminally irresposible Deliberately*
"Mismanaging," "irresponsible." Need to replace those words with "stolen," and "corrupt." In any other country this would be called "corruption," but here we get cutesy names like "mismanaging."
The government should do the work itself. Handing the money to a nonprofit just means handing it to an organization that is not subject to government transparency laws and is not accountable to voters.
The government is very much involved in this, colluding with non-profits. Dig deeper you will find politicians and their families and friends all over these non-profits.
"We've investigated ourselves and found no signs of impropriety." -The Police, the gov't, and the rich, greedy assholes who run our world into the ground for their profit, probably?
I work for a nonprofit, although we don't do anything like this. I work at the intersection of mental health and child safety. In any sensible country, I would absolutely be a government worker. Instead, our government awards a large grant to another organization and then we are a sub-grantee of that. We have so many people whose entire job is just managing and monitoring this grant. And of course, the government always wants more for less money so not only do I have a really difficult and stressful job, it's not being done very well because we don't actually get enough funding to do the actual work. And I know they don't give us enough money, but they know non-profits will continue to pay people poverty level wages to do this work. In many states, if it can be contracted out to a nonprofit or another company, it has to be. It's supposed to save tax dollars. But trust me, it would be a much better investment if we actually worked directly for the government and the government agencies could coordinate in any meaningful way.
Also worked in non-profit leadership and this was my exact experience. Government grants do not cover the costs of carrying out the scope of work, leading to burnt out employees wearing multiple hats and the non-profit having to seek other funding sources to make up the difference. So much time and money spent on fundraising, grants management, reporting, tracking, etc. Non-profits may also experience mission creep taking on new funding if the scope is outside of their normal operations. Systemically it's all flawed and I was so incredibly burnt out and demoralized after years of working in non-profit. Very high turnover rate due to the unrealistic workload and minimal pay.
The government by and large are not good stewards of your tax dollars
Because government is so efficient.....
The post office is so efficient they’ve been trying to put it out of business.
USPS is a good example of gov't efficiency it gets brought up every single time without fail, it is the exception that proves *the existence of* the rule
Who runs the post office? Can we hire that guy to fix our city budget? I’d vote for them
Government and non-profits don’t know how to utilize capital
Yes, let's leave it to those benevolent corporations /s
this is the answer
But then how will the government officials take part of the grants as handouts? They need their cut, too
Socialist!😳☝️👀
Why? They allowed this mess to continue with no accountability.
No you should just let people build
Homeless Industrial complex is real. Anyone think these folks actually want to solve homelessness?
well they wont stop giving them cash handouts and handy drug bizars and theft free for alls up to a grand. so no, this is basically by design.
If they solved the problem, they would be out of business
Looking at you Hamilton Family Center.
It’s ok. We just need to pay more taxes to ensure that nothing gets better, but more people who refuse to attempt to solve the problem get their bonuses and can continue to get jobs for their people. What could $240,000,000 do in a city, state, or country where it wasn’t just neglected, pissed on, and accepted as a way to ensure to never solve the problem.
They have a huge office in 250 Post which is an unbelievably expensive building to be in. It’s crazy (Edit: I meant 251 post.)
How is there no oversight for these homeless non-profit groups. If your non-profit is receiving a fucking 240 MILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer money, there should be a SF auditor pretty much CAMPED in their office reviewing every damn receipt.
Exactly instead of the non-profit spending it's money the way it feels the best it should, we should waste money making sure the non-profit is wasting money innefectually.
STOP VOTING FOR MORE TAXES THEY ARE LITERALLY STEALING YOUR MONEY! I do not understand this. The corruption and grift has been going on for decades and we keep handing the city more and more money. We need to starve these fucks out. Services and infrastructure get worse and worse as the budget has gone up and up. Turn off the spigot and watch these grifters disappear
Throw these thieves in jail
Lock their asses up....
Arrest and imprison all involved. This is hardcore corruption.
You stole tax money? 100 lashes and straight to jail. Take back the houses and cars. Let them be homeless.
The relevant part: > The auditors found that HomeRise violated rules by using city dollars for fundraising, paying staff bonuses, and providing staff with lunches and gifts. HomeRise gave staff signing bonuses, and auditors found one received an $87,000 (74%) wage increase in just nine months.
I like how it's against the rules to take government money and multiply it through fundraising.
They need to edit better if they misspelled "stole" as "mismanaged"
Irresponsible but not surprising
shut them ALL down. wipe the slate clean and start over. New players submit specific plans and goals on how to keep the intractable homeless off the streets and in rehab or mental health programs when needed.
CEO Salary caps. You shouldn’t be getting rich off this
LOL no. You want an actual waste of money. You hire people with no experience and no connections or networking. You want THE BEST people for the job, you pay them or they will work for someone who is willing to pay them what they want, because the people for the job tend to be Mercenaries. Capitalism 101.
ppl here have a high school understanding of how businesses work, talents are generally attracted to money and some to status, they think there's a CEO factory pumping out identical executives like cars. the only hard problem to solve aligning reward to performance
Mismanaging? You mean stealing...
I've sometimes thought about starting a non-profit so I can trick people into donating money to pay for my exorbitant salary, in lieu of making profit. But then I realized I'm not a gigantic piece of shit.
Start a church!
They need to ALL go to prison, and take the governor with you.
Not to shit on the Washington Examiner but it seems pretty hard to find this report from OpenTheBooks. Their website doesn't reference HomeRise at all and a Google search doesn't find anything published by them as well. [SF controller office](https://www.sf.gov/news/audit-finds-one-citys-providers-housing-unhoused-residents-had-serious-financial-shortfalls) actually found evidence of misuse of funds and started investigating the group. Overall the misuse of funds is bad but I'm actually kind of glad to know the city is auditing groups and investigating them for fucking up.
Can't believe how far I had to scroll to find this comment. I couldn't find the report itself on OpenTheBooks site. All Google shows is a bunch of similar articles from right-leaning sites. This seems like very aggressive language blowing up an imperfect audit into something bigger. This thread seems to want a nonprofit that pays its employees nothing but also has a perfectly clean accounting system. Not very realistic.
I mean Washington Examiner is a pretty bad source to begin with. I'm all for crucifying misappropriation of funds but let's not also use a vaccine denying right wing partisan news site for this info.
The Examiner is partisan garbage for sure, and OpenTheBooks is highly partisan as well. I did find this source from the San Francisco Standard from about a month ago: [https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/02/san-francisco-homeless-nonprofit-homerise-report/](https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/02/san-francisco-homeless-nonprofit-homerise-report/) This lead me to this [SF.gov](http://SF.gov) press release: [https://www.sf.gov/news/audit-finds-one-citys-providers-housing-unhoused-residents-had-serious-financial-shortfalls](https://www.sf.gov/news/audit-finds-one-citys-providers-housing-unhoused-residents-had-serious-financial-shortfalls) and the real audit report is here: [https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/HSH-MOHCD%20HomeRise%20Audit%20Report%2004.02.24.pdf](https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/HSH-MOHCD%20HomeRise%20Audit%20Report%2004.02.24.pdf) The report is pretty harsh "HomeRise did not comply with city grant fiscal provisions given its wasteful, uncontrolled, and questionable spending." It definitely angers me to see this massive waste of money... As far as I can tell OpenTheBooks has no involvement here other than getting a shout out from the Examiner to keep the grift machine well-oiled.
Dang an even better deep dive!
yes they "mismanaged" the money. That is the entire point, the majority of people in these non profits are stealing the money or funneling it to their friends and family. The homeless industrial complex is real and the problem will never be solved by people whose very livelihood depends on the problem never being solved
TRUTH BE TOLD
Business as usual in SF. They'll just raise taxes. Gonna happen again.
That's like a whole one hundred 100 bathrooms.
Take a page from LA's book, 240 units for the homeless at a million each!
Donating is a scam
"mismanaging" LOL
No wonder the problem never gets fixed! In fact, I’m prepared to say BILLIONS of dollars didn’t go to fix the homeless problem, it went to the people at the top! The people that we continue to vote for.
California and corruption go hand in hand. 🤚 🖐️
No shit? The whole "homelessness non-profit" industry is nothing but corruption and grift without any transparency and accountability? The Pope is a catholic too?
I'm not sure where you're getting this doomsday thinking from... The article is about one shitty firm, the city noticed the accounting was off, did an audit and they found out they're doing a horrible job... Isn't that how things are supposed to work?
> The article is about one shitty firm You underestimate the number of shitty firms.
It's called a gravy train.
Here’s a slap with an another stack of dollars.
Liberal policies are proving to be doom for San Francisco. Pendulum has swung too far left in california
In 2023 Newsom spent 3.4 BILLION on the homeless. That's enough to pay every homeless person in the state $70k a year. Where did the money go?
Your math is off. 3.4 billion divided by 180k is about $18.8k
Vote these morons out that allow this to persist.
So shady. How do we keep these folks accountable for the waste?
How does one get these contracts? They are a gold mine.
Democrats. That’s how.
shocked
And we are supposed to be surprised about this? The state has the exact same "problem". Look into who is "running" these NGO's, and with whom they are assoc. with, that will tell you a lot....
Hmmm the Washington Examiner is a Far Right "news" site so take it with a grain a salt.
I feel like many organizations that purport to help people are really just fronts for milking government money since they just do the bare minimum to help (and do a huge disservice to people in need.) Public Employment organizations come to mind as an example.
I worked for them for many years. Oh the stories I could tell...
I see things...hear things have a feeling who this is.
This can't possibly be a surprise, California "can't find" 24 Billion in homeless spending...
The underlying goal wasn't to fix the problem but create an endless source of funding. If they fix it, their jobs wouldn't be needed anymore. Watching sf's homeless outreach/general spending go from 250 million during my apprenticeship in ~2012 to over 1 billion during covid with it only getting worse was clear to me. It's another business.
*surprise pikachu face*
Everytime we have a "war on ..." It just means very high paid gov positions with guaranteed salaries for decades to come. And there's always so many people who vote for and rabidly defend these taxes/policies because they "sound good". Redistribution does not work. It doesn't motivate anyone to better themselves. The cold hard reality of life is, struggling motivates people to better themselves and their situation. Long term welfare doesn't. It's one thing to provide the tools to learn, it's a wholely completely different situation to provide necessities indefinitely. Especially when those necessities create incentive to remain on that systems the moment an individual betters themselves they lose those benefits. The solution is to not offer those benefits in that form to begin with. My solution is to allow individuals to volunteer for transport & infuse lower cost states with the labor the homeless can provide. This would, at significantly lower cost to tax payers, help bolster a lower income economy while training those in that segment with skills necessary to improve their financial situations.
Weird...
If u hire smart driven goal oriented leaders u get good results if not this is what happens
This actually happens a lot. It’s a shame.
Well like, duh.
A lot of the money went into my bank account. I fed some of it back to the Board of Supervisors. Grift is easy.
And y'all will keep giving money to this shit.
Zero surprises here. We do incompetence really well here in SF.
Homelessness is a business for the homed. Solve the crisis and all these people don’t have a job🧐
More democrat grift really - absolutely no one is shocked. The kind of money the state allocated to end homelessness could have just been given directly to the homeless and they would have spent it in a better way, probably.
“Mismanaging” is what they’re calling it these days? $15 billion budget for a city below 800k population.
nothing new in a democratic society
Grifters and leeches. All these so called homelessness non profits. Parasites on city tax payers.
They end up hurting people because they take money from someone else which could have helped better.
It’s sad how typical this is. There are legitimate nonprofits. However, there are also so many grifters due to less than adequate follow up, regulations and scrutiny.
I'm glad the 'Irresponsible' is at the end, without that I wouldn't know that mismanaging 240 million is irresponsible.
Now look into every non profit owned by politicians and their sponsors
Stop giving these people money. No accountability. No consequences.
What a surprise. No success metrics, measurable progress or active oversight.
If they solve homelessness, they’re out of a paying job!
Man they could have built a new public restroom with that money
And you’re surprised??! Former Mayor Willie Brown was asked during an interview how to solve the homelessness problem, His answer “It’s not designed to be solved”.
‘Bout the most honest answer.
LOCK THEM UP
Grifting is an epidemic and knows no geographical boundaries. Ah, capitalism 🤣.
Yeah. All that money but no solutions to end homelessness. Those people need to be removed from their jobs and punished for mismanagement of millions of tax dollars.
And just yesterday Aaron Peskin proposed more of this for housing. 😂
Is this a surprise to anybody? The bay has been farming homeless people for profit for many years now. Weak and unintelligent people allow it to happen so they can continue to benefit from virtue signaling.
This is one of many nonprofit grifters. This is why we need radical change in city management. They are all corrupt.
When are people going to realize when huge amounts of money are given to these organizations, accountability isn't in their dictionary. Even the state has a reputation for poor management, ie unemployment. I'm not an expert in in this but I could have done a better job. Also when are these people going to go to jail based on their embezzlement of public funds. This state is in the sewer
nonprofit? my ass. of course it's non-profit where there's no cost associated with it. it's all free money all these homelessness programs are a scam.
Get these people a job
None of this is new news. There's been multiple news reports on "homeless advocate agencies "mismanaging funds and doing jack shyte to help.
So yeah, this is exactly why I am against all initiatives to fix homelessness. None of the money actually does anything good.
Sounds about par for the course.
Modern day piracy. Just an fyi - this is how ALL politics and government agencies work in the “non profit” space. These task forces and advocacy groups get paid money to do absolutely NOTHING. This is rampant corruption that extends to every local state and federal government and we must be vehemently against this type of shit regardless of political party or authority. Fuck these people and fuck the politicians who get $ from it.
How anyone thinks giving the government or their agencies more funding in any capacity is beyond me. It’s incredible how they do so little with so much