California leased 15,000 hotel rooms to help homeless people. Half now sit empty

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California leased 15,000 hotel rooms to help homeless people. Half now sit empty
 
DOUG SMITH AND BENJAMIN ORESKES
LOS ANGELES TIMES
May 20, 2020, 8:05AM
 

Only about half of the 15,000 hotel and motel rooms that California has leased for mostly homeless people to slow the spread of the coronavirus are now occupied, a review of state records shows.

More than a month into Gov. Gavin Newsom's program to get homeless people off the streets, the occupied rooms account for — at most — less than 5% of the 151,000 people who sleep on street corners, under bridges and in emergency shelters across California.

As of Monday, 7,919 hotel rooms had guests and another 7,700 were vacant, according to figures released by Newsom's office.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10977117-181/california-leased-15000-hotel-rooms?sba=AAS

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California leased 15,000 hotel rooms to help homeless people. Half now sit empty
 
DOUG SMITH AND BENJAMIN ORESKES
LOS ANGELES TIMES
May 20, 2020, 8:05AM
 

Only about half of the 15,000 hotel and motel rooms that California has leased for mostly homeless people to slow the spread of the coronavirus are now occupied, a review of state records shows.

More than a month into Gov. Gavin Newsom's program to get homeless people off the streets, the occupied rooms account for — at most — less than 5% of the 151,000 people who sleep on street corners, under bridges and in emergency shelters across California.

As of Monday, 7,919 hotel rooms had guests and another 7,700 were vacant, according to figures released by Newsom's office.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10977117-181/california-leased-15000-hotel-rooms?sba=AAS

I guess they'll be bulldozed after the homeless move out.