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One tool to help with the homelessness crisis in California is gaining traction.
Project Homekey buys up old motels and hotels and turns them into long-term housing for people experiencing homelessness.
Unhouse people have already begun moving into the first projects. And service providers and low-income property developers see advantages in the program.
Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with
Saul Gonzalez, co-host of KQED’s “The California Report.”
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Tents for the homeless line a sidewalk in Los Angeles, California on December 17, 2019. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
Project Homekey: Can LA’s aging motels help solve the city’s homeless crisis? MORE Veronica Marmion stands outside her Project Homekey room in LA s Adams District. Photo by Saul Gonzalez.
Across Los Angeles, there are many aging and underused motels and hotels, some dating back to the glory days of Route 66. A new state program called Project Homekey looks to buy these properties and convert them fast into long-term housing for LA’s unhoused population. The thinking goes: Why build from scratch when the buildings are already there?
What is Project Homekey?
Shortly after the COVID pandemic started, the state of California launched a program called Project Roomkey to temporarily house people experiencing homelessness in vacant motels and hotels to help protect them from infection. That soon evolved into Project Homekey. Using $846 million in federal and state grant funds and some philanthropic money, local governments, cooperating
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