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The Mayfair Hotel in Los Angeles was built in 1926. It underwent a four-year-long renovation and reopened in 2018. And then the pandemic hit about 16 months later. That was when LA announced a new program called Project Roomkey designed to stop the spread of COVID among the homeless by moving them off the streets and into hotel rooms the city would pay for. The Mayfair became one of the hotels used for this purpose.How would you expect the idea of moving drug addicts living on Skid Row into a recently refurbished hotel to go? If you guessed not very smoothly, you’re correct. The LA Times got hold of email from some of the security people who worked the site:Quote“Participant in 1516 Threatened staff, Security, destroyed property. Screamed. Yelled cursed. Everything went wrong with her. Inside and outside the building,” wrote a worker with Helpline Youth Counseling Inc., a service provider assigned to the hotel, in early 2022…“Around 10 am a male in 1526 assaulted another resident in Room 726,” a security guard wrote in March 2022. “The situation was quickly broken up and 1526 was escorted out by police.”In Room 406, hotel managers found two broken windows, a broken television and a broken granite countertop. In Room 504, they found that a resident had spray-painted the shower curtain, written on a bathroom mirror and stained the carpet with spray paint. In Room 801, someone smeared feces around a doorway.
“Participant in 1516 Threatened staff, Security, destroyed property. Screamed. Yelled cursed. Everything went wrong with her. Inside and outside the building,” wrote a worker with Helpline Youth Counseling Inc., a service provider assigned to the hotel, in early 2022…“Around 10 am a male in 1526 assaulted another resident in Room 726,” a security guard wrote in March 2022. “The situation was quickly broken up and 1526 was escorted out by police.”In Room 406, hotel managers found two broken windows, a broken television and a broken granite countertop. In Room 504, they found that a resident had spray-painted the shower curtain, written on a bathroom mirror and stained the carpet with spray paint. In Room 801, someone smeared feces around a doorway.
Semi-feral dopers and mentally ill people destroyed fancy hotel rooms? Who could NOT foresee that?!
They were safer from covid out in the fresh air than cooped up with all the other "guests" in the hotel.
