De Blasio: City to begin moving homeless people out of hotels after complaints

[rangerrebew]

De Blasio: City to begin moving homeless people out of hotels after complaints

By ERIN DURKIN

08/17/2020 01:14 PM EDT
 

The city will begin moving people experiencing homelessness who were given hotel rooms to protect against the coronavirus out of the hotels and back into shelters, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.

He did not give a timeline for the move, but said the city would back away from the hotel program after complaints from residents in some neighborhoods about quality of life problems they blame on the facilities.

“As the health situation has continued to improve, we’re going to start the process of figuring out where we can get homeless individuals back into safe shelter facilities, and reduce the reliance on hotels,” de Blasio told reporters. “Hotels [are] certainly not where we want to be in general, and we’re going to start that process immediately.”

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/08/17/de-blasio-city-to-begin-moving-homeless-people-out-of-hotels-after-complaints-1309540

[PeteS in CA]

Will NYC pay the hotels for all the broken and ruined fixture, furniture, walls, doors, and carpet?