SF Mandates 7,000 Hotel Rooms for Homeless
The San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an emergency ordinance on Tuesday requiring the city to secure 8,250 hotel rooms by April 26th.
- Mayor London Breed must now decide whether to sign or veto the measure.
- Estimated cost to find/rent 7,000 hotel rooms for homeless for 90 days is $105 million.
- Additional 1,250 hotel rooms sought for front-line workers and discharged hospital patients
SF Gate reports that the ordinance requires that 7,000 of these rooms be reserved for the city’s homeless, 500 for discharged people released from local hospitals with COVID-19 exposure and 750 rooms for front-line workers.
To know more about Emergency Ordinance – Limiting COVID-19 Impacts through Safe Shelter Options, you may read the full ordinance here.
Read More: SF Gate and Business Insider
Our emergency ordinance to house the unhoused in hotels just passed unanimously.
This legislation will save lives. It’s a shame we needed it, but unanimous passage is a loud statement of the values of this Board of Supervisors.
Now let’s get our neighbors safely inside!
— Hillary Ronen (@HillaryRonen) April 15, 2020
[Emergency Ordinance – Limiting COVID-19 Impacts through Safe Shelter Options]
Emergency ordinance to require the City to secure 8,250 private rooms by April 26, 2020, through service agreements with hotels and motels for use as temporary quarantine facilities for people currently experiencing homelessness, people released from local hospitals with COVID-19 exposure or infection, and front-line workers in the COVID-19 crisis; waive the requirement under Charter, Section 9.118, that the Board of Supervisors approve the service agreements for private rooms; require daily reporting to the Board of Supervisors on the City’s progress in procuring and providing the needed rooms; require congregate care facilities for the homeless to comply with social distancing practices and implement COVID-19 screening protocols; and direct the City to use best efforts to enable people leaving congregate care facilities for temporary rooms provided by the City to subsequently return to congregate care facilities. ASSIGNED to Budget and Finance Committee
