Posted on 04/19/2020 2:08:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SAN FRANCISCO - California is on its way to acquiring nearly 16,000 hotel rooms to house the homeless during the pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Saturday as he reminded people to stay indoors as outbreaks continue to crop up throughout the state.
Standing in front of a Motel 6 near San Jose, Newsom said more than 4,200 people have been moved out of shelters and off the streets into motel rooms. He took the opportunity to scold leaders of unnamed cities for blocking efforts to house the homeless, asking them to “please consider the morality” of their decisions.
The pandemic that has plunged California - the world’s fifth-largest economy - into recession has hit hard. There are concerns the virus could sweep through the state’s 150,000 homeless people, many of whom have chronic health conditions and lack safe places to quarantine themselves.
Newsom announced Project Roomkey two weeks ago, a project in which the federal government will pay 75% of costs associated with housing some homeless. It covers people who test positive or may have been exposed to the virus, older homeless people and those with underlying health conditions.
The program has acquired nearly 11,000 rooms, and Motel 6 has promised to set aside 5,000 rooms in 19 counties, Newsom said.
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well there’s a reason we go to the Hampton...
I would think being outside with lots of air space would be preferable to breathing a crowded building’s mostly internal circulating air
Is this being paid for with Federal tax dollars?
How many hotels/motels will be destroyed and who will pay for property damage and rebuilding?
Newsom turns all Cali Motel 6s into Motel 5s.
Oh, that’ll work out real well.
Hey man, hold mah beer...
Hotels have been commandeered by tyrant dictator govenors during a crisis made into section 8 housing and solved their homeless problem for ever. This pandemic seems to be work
ing out well for thier agenda and gave them what they wanted
The truth is, most of them are Drug Addicts." But to call them what they are doesn't elicit the same sympathy as "homeless."
Mental note don’t use California hotel rooms.
Motel 6 rooms have outside entrances and draw their ventilation air directly through A/C unit intakes next to the entry door.
If I was a hotel owner, I’d be more concerned about all the unlawful behavior the homeless are known to engage in, the disease and vermin infestations that will accompany their residence, policing their behavior while they are resident at the hotel, the amount of damage they will do to the property, getting them to leave afterwards and removing trash/fumigating/cleaning/replacing unrestorable furniture/repairing structural damage once they are gone. Oh, and getting the state to pay up promptly so the work can be done.
The motels, like all other travel-related businesses, have already had 60 days or more of little to no income, so there are not a lot of reserve funds to carry accounts until state payments come on line.
But, what the heck, this is California. Just follow the lead of Governor Big S _ _ _-eating Grin. This will all work out.
They’ll probably need to be gutted, razed (at taxpayers’ expense of course) when this is over, or converted into Section 8 housing.
Housing the homeless has been tried countless times. It does not work. These people, for the most part, are drug addicted and mentally ill. They won’t stay in doors.
Bed bug epidemic to be spread throughout country after others start staying in these rooms.
Prostitution will go thru the roof now that they have a place to do business.
Now, they will have a bricks and motar address for voting and census purposes.
Motel Sicks.
That was my thinking as well. This is so bizarre
L8r
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