Voters to decide whether LA hotels should house the homeless
The Los Angeles City Council has voted to place a controversial measure on the March 2024 ballot that would...
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Nearly 50 Project Roomkey deaths in LA raise concern
A Los Angeles County program to house homeless people in hotels has registered 49 deaths of residents since its...
LA County will maintain Project Roomkey — for now
Los Angeles County officials said it would continue Project Roomkey through September, but wouldn’t expand the federally-funded program that...
LA should add 15K hotel rooms to Project Roomkey: Biz Council
A leading Los Angeles business group wants the city to substantially expand Project Roomkey, a federally-funded program that houses...
Biden’s executive order fully reimburses LA for Project Roomkey
Los Angeles’ Project Roomkey got a big boost when President Biden signed an executive order directing the federal government...
California spent $850M on inns for homeless
Hotel sales in California fell through the floor in 2020, but a state-run spending spree produced dozens of deals at year’s end. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week that the state used money from...
With Covid surging, program to house homeless in hotels gets extension
California’s program to temporarily house the homeless in hotels — which had been winding down — is getting extended...
Inside LA’s opaque program to house homeless in hotels
UPDATED, Jan. 5, 2021: Less than a year ago, black SUVs and international tourists crowded the L.A. Grand Hotel...
LA to phase out hotel program for homeless
Los Angeles authorities are winding down Project Roomkey, the ambitious plan to move thousands of people without housing into hotels in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Heidi Marston, executive director of the Los Angeles...
Project Roomkey has locked out most vulnerable, advocates charge
The state’s Project Roomkey was designed to house elderly, vulnerable and homeless people in hotels to slow the spread...
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