Measure To Require Hotel Rooms For LA's Homeless Set For March Ballot - MyNewsLA.com
LA is considering a measure that would require hotels to provide rooms to homeless ( unhoused) people if the hotel has vacancy. The city would pay market for the room and the homeless person would get to stay there.
A measure that would require hotels in Los Angeles to place unhoused people in vacant rooms and the city to consider its affordable housing needs before approving new hotel developments will appear on the March 2024 ballot.
The initiative received more than 126,000 signatures and was submitted to the City Council, which voted unanimously Friday to place it on the ballot rather than adopt it immediately. The proposal comes as Project Roomkey, a program created in response to the coronavirus pandemic that provided shelters for more than 10,000 homeless individuals during the past two years, is being phased out.
If the measure is approved by voters, the city’s Housing Department would pay hotels a fair market rate to lodge each person after identifying hotels with vacant rooms. It would require hotels to report the number of vacant rooms to the city and prohibit them from refusing lodging to unhoused people seeking housing through the program.
This is the right thing to do and a way to help the homeless population. Hopefully it gets passed and they can clean up the streets and start putting the homeless in the hotels all around downtown, Beverly Hills etc. Good news for today.
LA is considering a measure that would require hotels to provide rooms to homeless ( unhoused) people if the hotel has vacancy. The city would pay market for the room and the homeless person would get to stay there.
A measure that would require hotels in Los Angeles to place unhoused people in vacant rooms and the city to consider its affordable housing needs before approving new hotel developments will appear on the March 2024 ballot.
The initiative received more than 126,000 signatures and was submitted to the City Council, which voted unanimously Friday to place it on the ballot rather than adopt it immediately. The proposal comes as Project Roomkey, a program created in response to the coronavirus pandemic that provided shelters for more than 10,000 homeless individuals during the past two years, is being phased out.
If the measure is approved by voters, the city’s Housing Department would pay hotels a fair market rate to lodge each person after identifying hotels with vacant rooms. It would require hotels to report the number of vacant rooms to the city and prohibit them from refusing lodging to unhoused people seeking housing through the program.
This is the right thing to do and a way to help the homeless population. Hopefully it gets passed and they can clean up the streets and start putting the homeless in the hotels all around downtown, Beverly Hills etc. Good news for today.