Janéa Jackson, the chief executive of HomeRise, said Tuesday she will step down next month, ending a turbulent three-year tenure at the helm of one of the city’s largest permanent supportive housing providers for the formerly homeless.
The announcement came less than two months after the Chronicle reported that missed wellness checks by HomeRise staff left a deceased resident at Jazzie Collins Apartments to decompose in his room for days, and that records were later falsified to indicate the checks had been done.
In the wake of those failures, the city attorney’s office opened an investigation into HomeRise, which operates 18 supportive housing complexes in San Francisco. City officials also placed the organization on the city’s highest level of monitoring for the second time in the past two years…