San Francisco leaders’ idea of governance is to funnel billions of dollars to unaccountable far-left nonprofit groups. If you can believe it, that strategy hasn’t been working.

San Francisco relies on nonprofit groups to deliver social services to the tune of some $1.4 billion per year. Despite this, the city’s Board of Supervisors has only now decided to push through a bill that would establish “measurable performance goals” in city contracts with those nonprofit groups.

The problems have been glaring with each nonprofit scandal that has come to light. Accusations of embezzlement, nepotism, and defrauding the city have plagued a number of nonprofit groups that San Francisco gave anywhere from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars to for services related to poverty, drug abuse, and homelessness.

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Outsourcing governance to nonprofit groups hasn’t done much to help San Francisco on these matters, either. The city has been plagued by homelessness for decades, thanks in part to the city enabling homeless people to fall further into their addictions as a form of “harm reduction.” In 2023, the city saw a record number of overdose deaths. Governance in San Francisco has been a mix of ignoring problems while shoveling billions to nonprofit groups and scrambling to fix mistakes that have led problems such as crime, drug abuse, and homelessness to spiral out of control after the fact.

San Francisco has wasted billions of dollars while residents and businesses have moved out, leaving the city with a budget deficit of, ironically, roughly the same amount it spends yearly on the nonprofit groups to which it has outsourced governance. The spend-now, evaluate-later attitude has cost taxpayers dearly and achieved nothing while the city’s problems have continued to grow worse.