Housing Hope Reviews

Everything else. Leadership have overinflated egos and poor leadership skills. There is egregious misuse/misallocation of public funds due to lack of competency in the finance department. It is MASSIVELY disorganized with a complete lack of care and regard for their properties and the people they purport to serve. Deep seeded and toxic favoritism. They set many lofty ideas with no solid plans or means for executing. And how could they anyway with zero training, zero accountability, and zero interest in improving any of the above.

- The pay stinks. They preach living wage jobs but only a handful of people working there actually earn the living wage. - Lack of personnel management- they simply just don't manage their people, so the people surrounding them have to adjust and work around the problem person. If they're experiencing real problems with personnel they just reclassify them. - If you complain or have anything negative to say about your job, you must hate homeless people; it seems as if there's a belief that the intrinsic reward of working here should be good enough to erase all of the struggles you encounter. - So many of us are struggling to pay our own bills but are expected to put the needs of the clients ahead of our own. It makes the mission seem two-faced- we put out our own families' well-being to prioritize the needs of their families. - There is a huge power struggle. All of the power lies within a few people and the underlings have literally none, so it's like starving animals scrapping for resources. The ways in which people (subtly) step on each other to climb their way up the power ladder amaze me everyday I'm there. - Nearly every job task you perform has bottlenecks. Nothing is simple or easy. - Lazy people- I often come to the printer or copier to find it jammed and the person who jammed it is nowhere to be found. My time is important, too. People pretend not to know information so they don't have to do more work. - Little things that add up- space is at a premium so sometimes when I want to get my lunch I can't because a confidential meeting is happening in the lunch room. Free food is a rarity. Parking is always a problem. - If anything happens- layoffs, lack of funding etc.- the first thing that's said must be "how will this impact the clients?" or you will be deemed a selfish person or "not mission-focused" for worrying about yourself. - Certain departments get all of the glory- we're ALL important. - Certain things that should be confidential are common knowledge- who got what raise, who is getting in trouble for doing what, what was said in the Director's Meeting- but we enjoy hearing these things because of the lack of honest communication. - A few good-natured people really seem to get taken advantage of.