Calif. Gov. Newsom announces 15K hotel rooms available for homeless
FILE – In this file photo taken Tuesday April 14, 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses an outline for what it will take to lift coronavirus restrictions during a news conference at the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,File)
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UPDATED 10:33 AM PT — Sunday, April 19, 2020
California has set aside 15,000 hotel rooms to shelter the homeless. According to Governor Gavin Newsom, the state has reached an agreement with Motel 6 to provide more than 5,000 rooms in several different counties.
This announcement came as part of the governor’s ‘Project Room Key,’ an initiative introduced to get the homeless population off the streets so they can be protected.
Newsom has said the homeless are incredibly vulnerable and often have no option to self-isolate nor social distance.
“4,211 individuals are now inside, off the streets (and) out of our shelters, representing roughly 38 percent of all of those hotel rooms now being occupied,” he stated. “We must be responsive too, to meet this moment, to meet the needs of 108,000 of those that are out unsheltered on any given day in the state of California.”
He also confirmed that three hot meals will be provided to the homeless every day.
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FILE – In this March 20, 2020, file photo, people line up outside GLIDE, a charity that offers free meals, a shelter and other services to the homeless in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Juliet Williams, File)