Program areas at TNDC
Affordable housing/property management: in 2022, tndc provided high quality property management services to 6,500 residents. Of the 672 households who responded to the annual satisfaction survey, 93% rated themselves as satisfied with the quality of the customer service at their building, 93% were satisfied/very satisfied with their building as a place to live, and 100% of our new tenants maintained housing after one year.
Housing Development: in 2022, tndc progressed on 13 affordable housing Development projects. Ten of these are new construction and three are rehabs of tndc properties. Once completed, the new buildings will provide over 869 units of affordable housing for 1,244 residents including seniors, transitional aged youth, and families with low incomes, including some of whom are homeless, and/or have special needs.
Tenant & community services: tndc social workers prevented 944 evictions and 97% of residents accessed their services. Social workers facilitate a wide variety of community activities throughout the year including workshops and informational sessions, produce drops, and support groups. Social workers organized and facilitated 934 activities last year for 4,051 unduplicated tenants. Tndc's Tenderloin after-school program (tasp): tasp provided programming to 220 children (aged 7 to 18) and their families, offered summer together programming throughout the summer and our traditional monday through friday drop-in after school program services during the school year. Health & wellness program: in 2022, tndc's gardens produced more than 3,100 pounds of free food which was distributed to the community, and 486,687 pounds of free food were given out at our food pantries. In our healthy aging focus area, 660 senior tenants have participated in indoor and outdoor activities such as activity kits, outdoor wellness activities, bingo for brain fitness, arts & crafts, and wechat group networking, and holiday celebrations.
Community organizing department (co): in 2022, tndc took on the full implementation of the healthy retail san francisco program and absorbed the healthy corner store coalition as part of our community organizing program. This means that tndc is now the lead organization in san francisco's effort to bring healthy food options into corner stores in low-income neighborhoods. Community organizing facilitated a food justice leadership academy for 17 local residents to provide skills-based and political education training focused on local, culturally appropriate and responsive food systems. And we facilitated our covote program (community organizing voter outreach team) to educate residents on county of san francisco's voting process while improving leadership skills, outreach, and voter engagement.