From Living in the SRO’s – to Running ThemPaul Hogarthbyline‚ Nov. 29‚ 2006Some tenants who are formerly homeless and have lived in the City’s single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotels are now running these same hotels today through the Master Lease program. While Care Not Cash has provided housing to thousands of homeless people in San Francisco, it has also given employment opportunities to many of these same tenants as well. The Tenderloin Housing Clinic (THC) has a master lease on fifteen residential hotels through the program, and has always had a policy to hire from its client population. As of September 2006, 23% of the Clinic’s staff are formerly homeless or former clients in the program. Four of the Clinic’s five property supervisors (who collectively oversee the 15 hotels) are formerly homeless. And many of the buildings’ general managers are former tenants in the SRO’s themselves, as they make the transition from SRO tenant to tenant advocate to building manager. |