Los Angeles residents will vote next spring on a proposal that would have hotels place homeless people in vacant rooms through a voucher program administered by the city.
Dr. Ben Carson provides insight on affordable housing and the decline of life expectancy on"Making Money."hotels is drawing criticism from a leading trade group in the hotel and lodging industry over its potential impact on employee safety.
"It’s really sad because homelessness is a very serious situation and this is not a serious answer to it," Chip Rogers, president and CEO of the American Hotel and Lodging Association , told FOX Business. "Our biggest concern is the danger that it would put hotel employees in. They are not trained in any way to take care of this population, and to have to attempt to do so is very dangerous.
Los Angeles voters will weigh in on a controversial proposal to house homeless people in vacant hotel rooms when it appears on the ballot in March 2024. "Los Angeles has seen a massive increase in new hotel development in recent years at the same time as the number of people experiencing homelessness has skyrocketed and the City’s affordable housing crisis has grown," the union wrote on its website. "Hotels are frequently proposed for land that is equally suitable for housing development and thus crowd out sites that could be used to help alleviate the City’s need for affordable housing.
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