was also named on the check. These two-party checks would be delivered to THC's offices, and THC would then deduct the rent from the check and give the tenant the balance. The incoming mayor's (Art Agnos) administration implemented the MPP on a trial basis, so if it worked, the city would fund it. With a small grant obtained for THC to start the program in 1988, it proved successful. By 1989, over 1,000 formerly homeless single adults were living in permanent housing through enrolling in the MPP. The program is still used by housing providers throughout San Francisco's extensive supporting housing system today. In May 1999, an innovative approach to housing homeless single adults was launched through the Department of Housing Services, called the hotel leasing program. THC became San Francisco's leading provider of permanent housing for homeless single adults, and the leasing program was the foundation of the San Francisco's Care Not Cash program, which began in 2004. Legislation In addition to helping author San Francisco's heat and hot water laws, key city ballot measures were drafted and state laws were strengthened to help rent-control and housing-code enforcement. National housing advocacy In 1999, Housing America (HA) was founded to build national pressure for increased federal affordable housing funds and co-authored the study, There's No Place Like Home: How America's Housing Crisis, Threatens Our Children, which generated several widespread media coverage. In 2000, There's No Place Like Home was authored for In These Times, which was a study on how the U.S. media ignore the nation's housing crisis was voted the 9th-most censored study for 2003 by Project Censored. As an author Six books on activism and social change have been authored by Randy Shaw. Generation Priced Out: Who Will Live in the New Urban America? In 2018, he published a book on the urban housing crisis talking about how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. Several points he emphasizes in his book are: One can be both pro-tenant and pro-development. Single-family home zoning and owners are part of the problem. Building new housing does not make existing housing more expensive. Tech and other high-paid workers are not the problem. Housing markets are not free markets. The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco "In The Tenderloin, Randy Shaw offers an incisive history of one of