Gary McCoy  😷 🏳️‍🌈

These are not failed programs, despite the horrifying rhetoric from the businesses fighting a critical funding mechanism to address our homelessness crisis. This is shameful, disingenuous, and pure outright lies. (2/?)

Again, these are strictly regulated programs with oversight at many levels of government - Including City departments, the Controller’s office, our Budget & Legislative Analyst, the State of California, and at the federal level in some cases. (3/?)

I myself have benefited from a majority of these programs and services to climb out of homelessness, to get sober, to become employable, to eat and be housed, to survive through some pretty serious health issues - including untreated HIV/AIDS at one point for some time. (4/?)

I am not the only one. These CBOs have saved thousands and thousands of lives every year, as evidenced by their reports to the Department of Public Health, HUD, etc - in order to receive contracts and funding. (5/?)

These are the organizations that provide these so-called “failed programs.” A slap in the face to our dedicated service providers, and to those they’ve helped save over the years - providing a better path from homelessness and despair. (6/?)

GLIDE; St. Anthony's; Mental Health Association of San Francisco; National Union of Healthcare Workers; Chinatown Community Development Center; AIDS Legal Referral Panel; Bill Soro Housing Program; Castro Country Club; Community Housing Partnership. (7/?)

Community Tenants Association; Compass Family Services; Council of Community Housing Organizations; Curry Senior Center; Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing; Dolores Street Community Services; Drug Policy Alliance; Episcopal Community Services; Faith in Action (8/?)

Faithful Fools; Getting to Zero Consortium; Harm Reduction Coalition; HealthRIGHT 360; Homeless Emergency Service Providers Association; Homeless Prenatal Program; Homeless Youth Alliance; Hospitality House; Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco (9/?)

Hunters Point Family Human Services Network; Lava Mae; Lutheran Social Services; LYRIC; Marty's Place Affordable Housing Corporation; Mission Economic Development Agency; Mission Housing Development Corporation; Mission SRO Collaborative (10/?)

National Alliance on Mental Illness, San Francisco; National Union of Healthcare Workers; Neighbors United; Northern California Community Loan Fund; One Treasure Island; Openhouse; Our Family Coalition; Parent Voices San Francisco; PODER; Positive Resource Center (11/?)

Progress Foundation; Q Foundation; Richmond Area Multi-Services; San Francisco AIDS Foundation; San Francisco Community Land Trust; San Francisco Safe House; Sea Cliff Cares; Senior and Disability Action; South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN) (12/?)

SRO Families United Collaborative; St. James Infirmary; Supportive Housing Providers Network; Swords to Plowshares; Tenants and Owners Development Corporation (TODCO); Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC); Tenderloin Housing Clinic (13/?)

Tenderloin People’s Congress; TGI Justice Project; Unite Here! Local 2; United Council of Human Services; Young Women’s Freedom Center; Youth with a Mission; and, many many more. If this makes you angry, and like me you’ve benefited from these programs, VOTE! (14/?)