Kind of like this scene in Beverly Hills Cop?
Posted on 04/08/2020 7:45:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LOS ANGELES - To curb the coronavirus spread, Los Angeles has embarked on a massive effort to bring thousands of homeless people off the streets and into hotels to protect them and others from infection.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week that money from the federal government would help pay for at least 15,000 hotel rooms during the pandemic. But Los Angeles County, with the state’s largest concentration of homeless people at some 60,000, has set its own goal of 15,000 rooms.
“We’re going big in LA,” said Heidi Marston, interim director of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. “We based our goal on what the need is here.”
The homeless population is particularly at risk. Many transients already have health problems such as heart disease or diabetes, and live in conditions that do not permit frequent hand washing and social distancing.
The hotel rooms set aside under the state’s Project Roomkey are reserved for the most vulnerable of the county’s homeless population, Marston said. These include people over 65 and those with underlying health conditions who don’t have symptoms but are at high risk for hospitalization if they contract the virus.
The first hotel opened Friday in Los Angeles. A total of 1,340 beds at 15 sites across the county are expected to be ready by the end of this week. Thousands more have been identified as potential locations.
Outreach workers assist with every step of the process: checking for symptoms, gathering belongings, transporting people and checking them into hotel rooms.
County officials are not disclosing names of hotels being opened to discourage uninvited people. They’ll be spread out across Los Angeles and in the Antelope Valley, northeast of downtown.
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Not gonna stay in a California hotel after this, San Francisco is doing the same to their hotels, yuk!
Gross. You ever want to stay in that hotel again?
List the hotels, so I can avoid them in the future.
Because the hotel owners haven’t suffered enough.
If you’ve got insurance, you might want to have an accidental fire.
If the homeless are out there where it can be noticed that there are neither social distancing nor dying in droves that creates a massive problem for the scaremongers.
What a waste, just Order All Public Employee’s in the County to take in 2 homeless persons each as House Guests.
remind me to never stay in a coronavirus and bedbug infected LA hotel!
“Welcome to the Hotel Califoorniaaaa....”
“Not gonna stay in a California hotel after this, San Francisco is doing the same to their hotels, yuk!”
Holy Fumigation Batman!
More likely is that if the hotels are identified, no paying guest will ever check in again.
gross
How many years did the federales continue to pay for housing for Katrina evacuees?
Whatever that time period is, double it.
Kind of like this scene in Beverly Hills Cop?
There’s always tents in Blythe.
Oh, good grief. This from the same people who let the criminals out of jail, you know, to protect them and others from infection.
This population should be infected, hospitalized, in ICU and dead by now.
“GGGGGGGo away......... got any money? Got any drugs”.
Who the hell would ever book a convention in California, or is that Coronafornia, ever again?
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