Feds extend funding through spring to help L.A. house homeless people in hotels
LA TimesGenia Hope, 52, moves into her hotel room in Whittier she got through Project Roomkey on July 7, 2020. Throughout the pandemic, the city and county of Los Angeles have rented thousands of hotel rooms for homeless people at risk of contracting the coronavirus. The city and county still have nearly 1,400 rooms rented in nine hotels for homeless people as of this month, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. In Venice, Echo Park and MacArthur Park, homeless services providers conducted months of concerted outreach to get people into hotels, making the clearing of large encampments possible. They want to spread the process out over several months to make it possible for homeless services providers to find permanent housing for the people leaving the hotels.
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Project Roomkey: Lessons learned from a massive program to save the lives of homeless people
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L.A. to keep downtown hotel open as homeless housing for another year
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L.A. had a golden opportunity to house homeless people in hotels — but fell short of its goal
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Tracking the L.A. homeless coronavirus protection effort
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California spending billions to house homeless in hotels
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Why did so many homeless people die while staying at one hotel used in Project Roomkey?
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L.A. County won’t expand program to shelter homeless people in hotels
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Program to buy hotels for homeless people could get another influx of cash
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Editorial: COVID is surging among homeless people. L.A. needs to do something about it.
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Program to house homeless people in hotels is ending after falling short of goal
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Why didn’t these L.A. hotels house homeless people? A new report offers some answers
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