San Francisco Leaders Not Holding Nonprofits Accountable, Worsening Drug Use and Homelessness: Critics

San Francisco officials have created a cycle of dependency regarding drug use, contributing to the city’s homelessness crisis, as nonprofits under lucrative contracts have little incentive to solve both problems and are not being held accountable, according to a local homeless advocate and a former San Francisco County Supervisor. JConr Ortega, 28, who was homeless for 20 years, made the claim in a recent episode of Epoch TV’s “California Insider.” Tony Hall, who served as a San Francisco Supervisor from 2000 to 2004, was also interviewed for the one-hour episode and agreed with his assessment. “A lot of the homeless nonprofits we have in San Francisco, they are given all this money but they’re not actually given an audit of how they are actually spending the money,” Mr. Ortega said during the episode....