Category: Master Lease Housing

When San Francisco’s economy began improving in 1995, rents in Modified Payment Program hotels rose beyond the welfare grant. Tenants were priced out of the market and the situation worsened with the start of the dot com boom in 1997. THC thought the city should lease hotels and we brokered the first two city master leases. But the challenge was that no nonprofit housing groups wanted to enter the leasing business, so if THC wanted to keep welfare and SSI recipients housed, we had to become the landlord. THC ultimately became the city’s leading provider of housing for single adults.

1999

90 Hotel Rooms For Homeless On The Way

by Kathleen Sullivan

Hotel Jefferson, a 90 room SRO managed by Tenderloin Housing Clinic is set to open. This after the closure of the Mission Rock Homeless Shelter, the new SRO will house at least 60 of the people who were displaced.

2001

Enough Is Enough 

by Nina Wu

Hotel manager rallies community to combat drugs, fighting, urinating to make the Seneca a better place to live and work.

 

2001

Master Lease Housing Brochure

In 2001 THC published a brochure to advertise our first five master leased buildings, along with some program highlights.

2001

Save the Mission Hotel

by Randy Shaw

Tenants of THC’s Mission Hotel raised their voices in opposition to the 2001 proposed City budget that would severely affect, if not end, THC’s ability to continue operations at the Mission.

2001

Metamorphosis At The Mission Hotel 

by Joe Donohoe

The Mission Hotel makes a turn for the better, with the help of Tenderloin Housing Clinic the hotel plans on continuing in this direction.

2002

THC Newsletter

This 2002 newsletter features the expansion of THC’s master lease program with the opening of the Looper Residence on Post Street. The Looper Residence was named after local activist Leroy Looper, who attended the opening.