Posted on 05/19/2020 11:23:47 PM PDT by KingofZion
Only about half of the 15,000 hotel and motel rooms that California has leased for mostly homeless people to slow the spread of the coronavirus are now occupied, a review of state records by The Times shows.
More than a month into Gov. Gavin Newsom’s program to get homeless people off the streets, the occupied rooms account for — at most — less than 5% of the 151,000 people who sleep on street corners, under bridges and in emergency shelters across California.
The actual number of rooms leased for homeless people in the statewide program known as Project Roomkey could be even lower since Newsom’s goal also included rooms reserved for people, homeless or not, who needed to quarantine or isolate themselves because of the coronavirus.
What Newsom launched in early April as a coordinated effort to address homelessness during the pandemic has led to mixed results. But, in general, it has progressed so slowly that it has fallen short of many expectations and is unlikely to get most of those who need help indoors.
In some counties, the largest impediments have been delays in preparing leased rooms for occupancy, not, as the governor has complained, NIMBY interests at the local level. In other counties, it has been a shortage of staff to care for homeless residents, providing services, such as food services, security, nursing and case management.
As of Monday, 7,919 hotel rooms had guests and another 7,700 were vacant, according to figures released by Newsom’s office.
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Newsom and the power-RATS desperate for the homeless vote...
Synchronicity
He did all this thinking the feds would underwrite the costs.
Newsom really made a bad gamble.
Whole lotta stupid goin on out there.
Gee, I wonder if any of Gov. Nuisance’s family member or cronies benefitted from those lease payments.
As I predicted when the idiotic concept was floated, homeless people would rather camp on sidewalk than live in hotels. They are not homeless due to lack of shelter beds (or even hotel rooms) but rather because THEY DON’T WANT TO LIVE WITH RULES.
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I think your prediction was correct...
I drive around in City of Los Angeles...I still see many homeless people living in tents...City has supplied them with portable sinks and toilets...
LAPD will not force homeless people go to hotel...It is voluntary...
There was a homeless woman, who had COVID-19...She left some hotel...LAPD eventually found her...She told cops that she did not want to go back to the hotel...Cops let her go...
I assume (perhaps incorrectly, which would make it even worse) that when they leased these rooms they negotiated a much lower price than is usually charged for the rooms individually.... But I wonder if the taxpayers would be better off, given the huge vacancy rates, if the rooms were rented as needed at their regular rates.
They probably got tired of the muffin stumps, lobster shells and chicken skins, and flagged books. And people trying to strap them onto rickshaws.
Newsom has plenty of money.
Think of the scattered feces, drug paraphernalia, parasites like bedbugs and other tiny horrors.
anyone know if hsr to nowhere construction is still ongoing?
Where does CA get all this freakin money?! They spend and spend and nothing seems to get better, no problem is solved. Amazing.
Newsome a relative of Pelosi.
I used to know a guy who was the director of a relatively large shelter in Detroit. That’s exactly what he told me. Most of them live on the streets because they want to
Government social program to fight homelessness doesn’t work.
Story at 11.
I’m shocked.
Can you imagine having a job cleaning hotel rooms through this as it is—and then getting your clientele switched to the hardcore homeless?
Another few months of this “pandemic” and I think more of us will find we don’t want to live with the rules they impose either!
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