Proposition C, "Our City Our Home" is a ballot measure to help San Francisco make a huge leap forward in addressing homelessness with real solutions. It's funding would be allocated based on this legally binding spending plan:

• $150 million/year to build housing

• $75 million/year for mental health and substance abuse treatment

• $40 million/year to prevent people from becoming homeless

• $30 million/year for new homeless shelter beds and navigation centers

Sounds like a great plan to address homelessness right? We tried to convince people this was the Right Priority, Wrong Approach, but that failed spectacularly. So now we're just going to lie that Prop C has No plan, No Accountability.

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The thing is, the City's largest corporations oppose Prop C--even though only businesses that make more than $50 million a year would be affected, and their first $50 million is exempt. The additional tax would be 0.5% of their gross revenues. And those companies are all enjoying many millions more from Trump's giant corporate tax cut. But they reaaaally want to keep those tax cuts. So we're trying to convince you that Prop C has no plan. How're we doing?

We also want to convince you that Prop C has no accountability--even though the City's official analysis of Prop C confirms its findings and purposes:

• "It is likely that (housing at least 4,000 homeless people and expanding shelter beds by 1,000 within five years) would be achievable with the funds made available through the Measure."

• "If 25% of the housing resources identified in the Measure were to assist homeless families, the initial reduction in family homelessness could be from 75-85%."

• "Adding additional shelter beds is likely to decrease the visible presence of homeless people and tent encampments."

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Prop C was designed to implement the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing's Five-Year Strategic Framework that will improve performance accountability across all programs and systems. The City and service providers have already successfully merged 15 different homeless services databases into one new centralized data system, the Online Navigation and Entry (ONE) System. The ONE System will provide centralized accountability of every dollar raised by Prop C. 

We don't have any other proposals that would generate anywhere near the funding to address the homelessness crisis . . . but please joins us in standing up for these big businesses.