San Francisco Is Overhauling How It Pays for Homelessness Services —But the Hard Part Is Still Ahead
San Francisco announced it will re-award every homelessness contract in the city by 2029, tying payment to real results—a meaningful break from a system that has long funded providers with little check on whether they actually deliver, amid separate reporting on lapses at nonprofits like HomeRise. The plan is the right diagnosis, but the metrics, enforcement, and public accountability that would make it real still need to be defined.