An ambitious Los Angeles County plan to lease hotel and motel rooms for 15,000 medically vulnerable homeless people is falling far short of its goal and may never provide rooms for more than a third of the intended population.
. That’s only a fourth of the number needed to house all those who are eligible.
County officials say that housing more than 3,700 people in three months has been an “unprecedented” achievement and that they are not giving up on the goal. For three years, Wendy Brown slept against the wall of the Cadillac Hotel, a funky 1914 beach inn in Venice once home to Jim Morrison and Charlie Chaplin. Here, tourists would pay up to $240 a night to mingle with B-boy dancers, bikini-clad skateboarders and artists steps away on the boardwalk.
Gov. Gavin Newsom launched Project Roomkey in early April with a statewide goal of leasing 15,000 rooms in hotels and motels that had lost business because of the coronavirus. The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed to pay 75% of the cost, and Newsom put in $150 million of state money. After setting up 35 hotels, the Homeless Services Authority is facing a limit on its capacity, interim Executive Director Heidi Marston said.
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