Editorial: Why is the federal government refusing to pay L.A. $60 million for housing homeless people?
LA TimesGenia Hope moves into her new room at a hotel that is being used for Project Roomkey in Whittier on July 7, 2020. Project Roomkey was launched by state officials in April 2020 to protect homeless people considered high-risk — because they were over 65 or medically fragile — by moving them off the street and into empty motel and hotel rooms. The city of Los Angeles could lose out on as much as $60 million — or one-third of what it was expecting from FEMA for Project Roomkey. Los Angeles County has less at stake — only about $1 million in Roomkey expenses after June 2021, according to a county official. In Los Angeles County, 10,768 people stayed in a Roomkey room at some point between April 2020 and May 2023, according to officials with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
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L.A. is entitled to federal aid to put homeless people in hotels. It hasn’t asked for any yet
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Program to house homeless people in hotels is ending after falling short of goal
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