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Project Roomkey To Wrap Up Hotel Stays For Homeless In California

September 24, 2020 6:00 pmSeptember 25, 2020 7:39 am

This week, hotels across California began another wave of emptying rooms as ‘Project Roomkey‘, California’s $100 million project to secure temporary shelter for the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic, plans its wrap up. An end to Project Roomkey The Project...

Only Half of All Hotel Rooms for Homeless Filled in California

May 19, 2020 8:16 pmMay 19, 2020 8:19 pm

On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom’s office released Project Roomkey data showing that just over 7,000 of the nearly 17,000 state and FEMA-leased hotel rooms and trailers set aside for homeless use during the coronavirus pandemic have been filled. Lower than...

Homeless Begin to Move Into State Funded Hotel Rooms

April 10, 2020 2:15 amApril 10, 2020 6:40 pm

On Wednesday, selected homeless across the state began temporarily moving into state-funded hotel rooms to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. “We have a moral and ethical responsibility to do our part” Announced last week by Governor Gavin...

Governor Newsom and FEMA Announce Program to House 15,000 Homeless in Hotel Rooms

April 3, 2020 5:22 pmApril 6, 2020 3:24 pm

On Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California and FEMA have created a new program to house homeless Californians at risk of contracting COVID-19 coronavirus in hotel rooms. Under the plan, known as “Project Room Key”, 15,000 hotel rooms across...