Posted on 04/15/2020 4:43:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved an emergency ordinance requiring the city to secure at least 8,250 hotel rooms for three affected groups amid the stay-at-home order, with 7,000 reserved for the city's homeless.
In addition to the 7,000 rooms for shielding the city's homeless residents from the coronavirus, the city would provide 500 rooms for discharged hospital patients and 750 for frontline workers. Also, the rooms must be acquired by April 26, according to the ordinance.
The city has maintained it will only provide hotel rooms for homeless people in the shelter system and for single-room-occupancy hotel residents who either have tested positive for COVID-19 or may have been exposed; homeless people who are over 60 or have underlying health conditions, regardless if they're living in shelters or on the streets; and first responders who need to quarantine.
On Monday, Mayor London Breed said despite hotel rooms across the city being vacant, staffing remains one of the biggest challenges in securing hotel rooms for the city's homeless residents, many of whom have addiction or mental health needs.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
They will REALLY be clean in a nice hotel room.....they will DESTROY these hotels!
These must be hotels that want their “star” ratings to drop to -2
Oh this will go well...what could go wrong???
Once they’re in there, it will be impossible to get them out.
To do so would be racist.
Bedbugs? Lice?
The smart hotels cleared out staff on furloughs. ‘Reopen right now? Oh, no, not possible at all, we have to wait for the all clear.’ Those that kept rooms open will be paying the price for years - once homeless are lodged in hotel rooms, there’s little incentive for politicians to kick them back out. There’ll be at least one sob story about a homeless mother and her little child and that’ll secure rooms for months (if not years) for all the meth heads.
Good luck, SF, getting your hotels back again.
Cool.
And scabies.
Local construction companies might as well start prepping demolition contracts for those hotels.
welllllll..............were movin on up!
Vermin?
I would be more concerned about crap in the halls.
I heard Nancy has a big house...just saying.
So when this is over I suppose the powers that be will put them back on the streets. The city got what it wanted, permanent housing for the homeless, bye bye hotel the socialist agenda back doored you in an emergency and won
No mention in the article who will be paying...or even if these rooms will be paid for. Just mentioned “acquiring” these rooms.
“All your rooms are belong to us!”
I sense.....a wave of resignations coming at the aforementioned hotels.
Bedbugs? Lice?
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Bed bugs cost a hotel about $20k in lost business, reputation repair, and treatment for just 1 bed bug if it is found. I friend who is in the hotel industry, told me this from their industry publications.
I can only imagine the issues here.
The hotels have to be forced to do this and either the state or the federal would reimburse them. I will be pissed if somehow the federal government would reimburse them.
That sounds like a great policy. Maybe future tourists will be required to sleep in homeless tents on the streets.
You are probably correct....the city will admit the properties are worthless by 2025...pay off the owners, and demolish the properties to be resold on the open market later.
Only question mark is that this whole ‘game’ has to amount to several tens of billions of dollars that the hotels will get in the meantime for room costs, then damages to the rooms, and later to legal fights in court.
Who will clean the hotels?
This will be fun to watch....
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