Editorial: The only heartbreak hotels during the pandemic are the ones that won't let homeless people in (via latimesopinion)
When a hotel in Lawndale agreed to house particularly vulnerable homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic, Lawndale officials offered a special greeting: The city attorney sent a letter to the hotel threatening to revoke its permit. Then another Lawndale official called L.A. County’s Building and Safety Division to inquire about shutting off the hotel’s power if the permit were revoked.
And in Covina on Friday, residents staged a protest outside another hotel that has agreed to house homeless people. One protester held a sign reading “Homeless” with a big X through it followed by “Not Behind My House.” At the moment, the county still plans to move homeless people there. Project Roomkey, as it’s known, has resulted in more than two dozen hotels in Los Angeles County offering more than 2,600 rooms. It’s not exactly charity work; the hotels get paid for three months of room rentals, can put some of their staff back to work and get reimbursed by the county for any damage to their property. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority selects the people who will stay in the hotels.
Even the chief executive of PIH Health Whittier Hospital wrote a letter to the mayor of Whittier telling him that the 85 nurses, doctors and other healthcare personnel who work in COVID-19 units and are now being housed at the nearby Doubletree Hotel would move out if homeless people were allowed to move in. “Although that is a noble idea,” wrote James R. West, it is “not a compatible arrangement.” County officials agreed not to use the Doubletree.
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