“Just like with Project Roomkey, there are federal, state and local sources of funding for emergency housing, and this initiative creates a new option for using those funds to get people into housing immediately,” Hernandez said.
A number of the Project Roomkey sites have already closed. The proposal comes as city officials are gradually closing one of the signature programs set up to address homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Project Roomkey, which turned multistory hotels into makeshift shelters. A number of progressive community and housing groups have backed it alongside Unite Here. The hotel industry will probably mount vigorous opposition to the ballot measure. voters having the ultimate say in 19 months. The initiative is backed by the hospitality worker union Unite Here Local 11, which had gathered enough signatures to place it before voters.įriday’s council vote sets the stage for a protracted public battle over the measure, with L.A. The council rejected an option that would have skipped the public vote and enacted the ordinance directly, instead voting 12 to 0 to send the measure to the ballot. A controversial measure that would require hotels in Los Angeles to rent vacant rooms to homeless people will go before voters in 2024, the City Council decided Friday.
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