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Mission: To prevent tenant displacement, preserve and expand the citys low cost housing stock and to provide comprehensive legal assistance to low income tenants. The clinic is successful in fulfilling this mission by providing free legal services, securing sro units through the master lease program and offering comprehensive support services to our clients.
Programs: Single room occupancy (sro) housing: this program has provided supportive housing to homeless tenants through master lease agreements with residential hotels in san francisco, california since may 1, 1999. The organization provides comprehensive property management services for twenty master-leased hotels. The organization's property management department manages tenants' leases and compliance with hotel leases and ensures the sanitation, safety, upkeep and code compliance of the hotels. The organization offers voluntary comprehensive support services to tenants residing in these hotels. The support services offered by the organization help residents maintain housing, enrich their self-respect, confidence and awareness, improve quality of life, minimize and/or resolve issues that may jeopardize their housing, build a strong sense of community and access to information about other helpful services. The hotels' operating expenses, including lease payments, are funded by a combination of rent collections and service contracts with the department of homelessness and supportive housing (hsh) of the city and county of san francisco, shelter plus care funding, and veterans affair supportive housing (vash) funding.
transitional housing services: this program includes the new roads subsidy program (new roads),new horizons transitional housing program (new horizons) and collaborative courts program. Funding for this program is from contracts with the apd and superior court of california of the city and county of san francisco. New roads provides rental subsidies, financial assistance and/or supportive services to homeless individuals on probation in order to obtain and retain permanent housing. New horizons provides up to 12 months of clean and sober transitional housing and housing planning assistance to individuals on probation. The collaborative courts program provides short-term stabilization housing and housing planning assistance to san francisco superior court clients.
housing service: this program provides housing, rental and payment assistance where the organization acts as a disbursing agent. Comprehensive case management is also offered to adult clients under hsh and the shelter plus care funding. These services target to low-income individuals and homeless individuals who may be mentally ill, have chronic substance abuse problems, and/or be afflicted with disabling hiv, aids or related disorders.