TENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT

Housing development (hd): in 2024, tndc progressed on 10 affordable housing developments, 7 are new construction and represent 801 units of affordable housing for residents including seniors, transitional aged youth, and families with low incomes, including some of whom are homeless, and/or have special needs. Three are rehabs of tndc properties representing 159 units of affordable housing, 32 of which were completed in 2024 and 47 units began construction. 2024 highlights include opening 70 new supportive housing at 180 jones in the tenderloin; and breaking ground on 90 homes at 2550 irving, tndc's first family housing building in the sunset district.

Community organizing department (co): in 2024, the tenderloin community witnessed significant accomplishments in community organizing and development. The tenderloin food policy council celebrated its first full year of effective community organizing and advocacy with big wins for the community, such as the restoration of the market match program funds in the state budget and expansion of food vouchers for the families of the tenderloin. They received a certificate of honor from the san francisco board of supervisors for their service to the community. They held regular monthly meeting with a membership of approximately 100 tenderloin residents with simultaneous translation in english, chinese, arabic and spanish. 6 resident leaders of the food policy council members also attended a national training conference where they learned leadership skills in organizing, meeting facilitation and advocacy. They developed a platform agenda and developed advocacy action plans for campaigns in 2025.2024 also saw the creation of the supportive housing overdose prevention network, a resident advocacy group with special focus on addressing overdoses in supportive housing, especially high impacted single room occupancies (sros). They identified resident leaders to co-facilitate the group with staff and began working on identifying policy or program recommendations developed from those that are the most impacted by overdoses. They will work through 2025 on creating the advocacy platform and strategies. We worked with other departments to pilot the installation and supply of narcan in a few of our sro buildings and developed, in partnership with property management and tenant services, a plan for managing and monitoring the pilot in 2024.the tenderloin chines rights association celebrated its 14th year with another group of chinese seniors completing a leadership training program and assuming leadership roles in the chinese community. With nearly 400 resident members, tcra is the largest resident-based neighborhood advocacy group in the tenderloin.in 2024, we also saw the completion of the draft tenderloin community action plan (tcap), a community-developed plan facilitated in part by tndc community organizing staff who served as the community engagement coordinator for tcap. Our staff hosted and facilitated dozens of community meetings, resident working groups, focus groups and the community tcap partner meetings. We also hosted a large community town hall to share the draft plan back to the community and develop support. Hundreds of residents and community stakeholders were engaged as through this unique neighborhood planning process with the city planning department. The tcap will be officially voted on by the sf board of supervisors for approval in early 2025.a new leadership academy curriculum and plan was created and funding identified that will be used to conduct multiple leadership academy resident cohorts in 2025.the community organizing department engaged with the sf department of elections in doing voter outreach, education, voter registration, poll worker registration, and get out the vote efforts which included events such as the "walk with windy" get out the vote event that brings many dozens of tenderloin residents together to conduct a march to city hall to deliver completed their ballots or to vote in person.further community and administrative support was given by the organizing team for resident-led groups such as the tenderloin people's congress and the tenderloin filipino community association, engaging over 200 residents in community advocacy and providing leadership development and capacity building support.