HomeRise Is Winding Down: What Happens to Residents of Its San Francisco Supportive Housing
- 🔑 HomeRise’s board announced on Oct. 1, 2026 an orderly wind-down of up to 24 months, and its statement says residents will stay in their homes with leases and rental assistance continuing. HomeRise describes a handover of ownership, management and services to other providers rather than a relocation of residents.
- HomeRise’s statement lists 18 properties by name, while the San Francisco Chronicle and SFist each reported 17. The Chronicle put the number of residents at more than 1,500 and staff at roughly 150, figures HomeRise’s own statement does not give. We report both building counts and have not reconciled them.
- No successor operators and no per-building transfer schedule have been named as of Oct. 2, 2026. The city’s homelessness department said, per the Chronicle, that the handover would go building by building and could take up to several years, while HomeRise itself cites up to 24 months.
- HomeRise’s own statement does not mention the 2024 city audit or any investigation, and it describes the organization as a single-mission group not built for the long term. A city spokesperson said, per press reports, that the city and HomeRise agreed the current operating model is not sustainable.
- Earlier reporting is attributed, not ours: a 2024 Controller’s audit, a March 2026 report of a resident’s death after missed wellness checks, a City Attorney investigation, four contracts the city did not renew in July 2026, and an August grand jury report. None is presented here as the cause of the wind-down.
- This is a developing story, pinned to Oct. 2, 2026. Still unannounced are successor operators, any layoffs, a final resident count and whether the city will take on any buildings. We plan to re-check around Oct. 16, 2026 and update this page in place.
As of Oct. 2, 2026, HomeRise says residents of its San Francisco supportive housing will stay in their homes while its buildings are handed to other operators over up to 24 months. The nonprofit’s board announced an orderly wind-down on Oct. 1, 2026, and the city is coordinating the transfers. No successor operators or building-by-building dates have been named, so this page reports what HomeRise, the city and the press have said, and we will update it in place.
Will residents have to move out of HomeRise buildings?
No. HomeRise says residents will remain in their homes, with their leases and rental assistance continuing. Board President Don Falk is quoted in the statement: “Residents will stay in their homes. Their leases and rental assistance continue.” The statement, signed by Falk and Interim CEO Tim Daniels, says on-site staff stay in place and services continue without interruption. It describes a change of owner, manager and service provider for each building, not a relocation of tenants. Before a building moves to a new operator, HomeRise says residents will be told first, in their own language. The contact number on the statement is 415-852-5300.
What did HomeRise announce?
HomeRise’s board announced on Oct. 1, 2026 an orderly wind-down of the organization, taking up to 24 months, with ownership, property management and supportive services moving to other providers. Founded in 1990 as Community Housing Partnership, HomeRise said it wants buildings to go to providers with scale, diversified revenue, comprehensive services and balance-sheet strength, and called itself a single-mission organization not built to deliver all of that over the long term. It said the work is being coordinated with the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development and other city agencies, plus building investors, lenders and regulators. Its page also says the board is running a national search for a CEO to guide the wind-down.
How many buildings and residents are affected?
HomeRise’s statement names 18 properties, while the San Francisco Chronicle and SFist each reported 17, and we have not reconciled the two counts. The statement lists 666 Ellis, Arnett Watson Apartments, Cambridge, Edward II, Essex, Hamlin Hotel, Mission Bay, Island Bay Homes, Iroquois, Jazzie Collins Apartments, Rachel Townsend Apartments, Rene Cazenave Apartments, 365 Fulton Street, San Cristina, Senator, The William Penn, Zygmunt Arendt and 5th Street.
The Chronicle reported that the city must transition operations and services at 17 complexes with more than 1,500 residents, and that HomeRise has roughly 150 employees. It also put public funding to HomeRise at about $240 million over a recent four-year period, while SFist wrote nearly a quarter-billion dollars. These are press figures that we could not confirm against a primary document. HomeRise’s statement gives no resident, unit or staff counts, and we have published nothing about individual buildings beyond what HomeRise and the city disclosed.
Who will take over the buildings, and when?
No successor operators and no per-building schedule have been announced as of Oct. 2, 2026. The Chronicle reported that the city did not say who it is considering. The city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing said the transition would go building by building and could take up to several years while it looks for qualified providers, per the Chronicle. HomeRise cites up to 24 months, and the Chronicle and SFist wrote one to two years. In July, the Chronicle reported the department planned to extend four expiring HomeRise contracts temporarily to the end of 2026 while it sought replacement providers; we have seen no update on that since the Oct. 1 announcement.
What has the city said?
The city says it will help move HomeRise’s properties and remaining contracts to new providers, and that it and HomeRise agreed the current operating model is not sustainable. The Chronicle and SFist attribute that conclusion to a spokesperson for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. SFist also reported that Mayor Daniel Lurie has promised an outcomes-based approach to future nonprofit contracts. On Aug. 31, 2026, before the HomeRise announcement, the mayor’s office announced a multi-year effort to redo the city’s homelessness-services contracts in phases through May 2029; coverage we read of that announcement did not mention HomeRise.
Why is HomeRise winding down?
HomeRise’s own statement points to its structure rather than to any single event: it says a single-mission organization is not built to deliver everything long-term supportive housing requires. The statement does not mention the audit or any investigation. The city’s view, as relayed by the Chronicle and SFist, is that the current operating model is not sustainable. The Chronicle’s headline places the announcement amid an investigation into deaths and financial dysfunction, which the paper describes as its own ongoing reporting with a university investigative program. We are not saying any of that caused the decision; neither HomeRise nor the city has said so in the statements we read.
What had been reported about HomeRise before the announcement?
Public bodies and local news outlets reported a series of concerns about HomeRise over roughly two and a half years; each item below is their reporting or an allegation, some of it disputed, and not our finding.
- April 2024. A city Controller’s audit, as reported by local outlets at the time, described spending on a social event, about $200,000 in staff bonuses and weak financial controls. HomeRise’s reported responses included disputing parts of the audit and saying other concerns were being resolved.
- March 2026. The Chronicle reported the death of a resident at one HomeRise building after missed wellness checks, and reported that records were allegedly falsified. The City Attorney’s Office opened an investigation, per the Chronicle; we have seen no published outcome.
- May 5, 2026. HomeRise’s CEO announced her resignation, effective June. The Chronicle reported that the city had placed HomeRise on its highest monitoring level for the second time in two years.
- June 2026. The Chronicle and SFist reported allegations from former employees and residents of sexual misconduct by a former case manager. SFist reported that he denied them, and the reporting we read mentioned no charges.
- July 16, 2026. HomeRise announced Tim Daniels as interim CEO.
- July 22, 2026. The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing did not renew four expiring contracts, about $39 million in planned three-year extensions, and said it would closely monitor four others worth $22.6 million, per the Chronicle. The interim CEO warned staff that layoffs were likely.
- Aug. 11, 2026. The San Francisco Civil Grand Jury issued a report on weak oversight of supportive housing; coverage of it discussed HomeRise’s case.
What is still unknown, and when will we update?
As of Oct. 2, 2026, HomeRise and the city have not announced who will take over the buildings, when each building will transfer, whether there will be layoffs, or the final resident count. Also unannounced is whether the city itself will take on any buildings. HomeRise says on-site staff remain in place, while the interim CEO warned in July that layoffs were likely; no number has been given. We are not speculating on any of these. We plan to re-check around Oct. 16, 2026 and will add what HomeRise or the city confirms.
How we verified this
We read HomeRise’s own statement in two copies and set it against local press. HomeRise’s announcement page and a newswire copy of the same statement, both dated Oct. 1, 2026, were read directly; they are two copies of one primary source, not two sources. Two local news reports of the wind-down, also dated Oct. 1, 2026, supplied the city’s statement and the resident, employee and funding figures. The Chronicle’s own site could not be read, so its full text was read through a syndicated copy.
Background items rest on dated reporting, each attributed and none restated as our finding. The April 2024 audit was read in two news reports; the March 2026 report, the May 5, 2026 resignation, the June 2026 allegations, the July 22, 2026 contract action and the Aug. 11, 2026 grand jury report were each read in at least one report published at the time. HomeRise’s own news page was used for the July 16, 2026 interim CEO announcement.
Two figures conflict between sources, and we show both. HomeRise’s statement names 18 properties; the Chronicle and SFist say 17 (an earlier Chronicle report in May 2026 said 18). We did not pick one. For public funding, the Chronicle gives about $240 million over a recent four-year period and SFist gives nearly a quarter-billion dollars; the two are compatible and both are attributed. A separate 2024 report cites $240 million as a different measure (total city loans, subsidies and agreements as of October 2022), which we did not use.
We use “did not renew” for the July 2026 contracts. The Chronicle’s account is that the city’s homelessness department declined to renew four expiring contracts, about $39 million in planned three-year extensions. One television report of the grand jury quoted a commission member using the word terminated. We followed the Chronicle’s wording as the closer account.
We did not state a cause for the wind-down. HomeRise’s statement does not mention the audit or investigations. The city’s view (current operating model not sustainable) is as relayed by two outlets. The Chronicle’s headline refers to an investigation into deaths and financial dysfunction, which its text describes as its own ongoing investigation with a university program, separate from the City Attorney’s Office investigation reported earlier. We could not find a standalone city press release on the wind-down.
Single-source figures are hedged in the text. The more-than-1,500 residents, 17 complexes and roughly 150 employees come from the Chronicle alone; the funding figures come from press reports, not from HomeRise or the city.
Names and sensitive details were left out on purpose. We do not name the resident who died or the former case manager accused of misconduct, who denies the allegations as reported; no criminal charges were mentioned in the reporting we read. We include no unit-level details and nothing about individual residents beyond what HomeRise and the city disclosed.
This was still moving at write time. The announcement was about a day old. Successor operators, a transfer schedule, layoffs and final counts had not been announced. No betting odds, prediction-market prices or forecasts appear anywhere on this page.