By Will Jarrett : missionlocal – excerpt

“No contract, no peace”

Some 300 workers from the Tenderloin Housing Clinic are on strike today, demanding an increase in wages.

“No contract, no peace,” the crowd shouted outside the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Services offices along Turk Street this morning. After eight months of contract negotiations, many said they felt “pushed” to strike because of a lack of clarity around pay raises.

The Tenderloin Housing Clinic is a property management nonprofit that maintains around 2,000 affordable units throughout 24 projects in the city, mainly for formerly homeless tenants. That includes five in the Mission, including San Francisco’s largest SRO hotel, Mission Hotel. The nonprofit received over $33 million in city funding last fiscal year to provide housing for some of the city’s hardest-up denizens, and to provide services such as case management…(more)

Is it wise to encumber the Tenderloin Housing Clinic with more contracts to fill when they can’t manage their current staff? It is time to talk to the residents about the conditions in the supportive housing about how they are being supported to determine which of the many contractors is doing the best job. If service personnel are upset how well are they performing their jobs? We should ask the tenants they are charged with supporting. They know more than anyone else how well the supportive systems work.