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Report: California Struggles To Fill Hotel Rooms It Booked For Homeless People

Eric Quintanar
Report: California Struggles To Fill Hotel Rooms It Booked For Homeless People
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Well over a month into Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA)  temporary housing plan for at-risk homeless people, California has struggled to fill hotel rooms and individual counties are seeing mixed results.  

The Los Angeles Times reported that the governor’s office has secured over 15,619 hotel rooms across the state as of Monday via the Project Roomkey initiative, which seeks to put homeless people most at-risk of coronavirus complications into hotel rooms. Of these rooms, 7,700 remain empty. 

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