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Statewide Effort to House Homeless in Hotel Rooms Meets Successes and Challenges

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News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In early April, Governor Newsom launched Project Roomkey, a temporary program designed to protect vulnerable homeless populations from Covid-19 by housing them in empty hotel rooms. The state has since placed more than 10,000 homeless residents in rooms, and officials are considering ways to make the program permanent. But long-term funding for Project Roomkey is uncertain, and some local communities are resisting. We'll assess the program and its future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim.

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Coming up on forum, we find out what's happening with Project Room Key that Governor Gavin Newsom launched in April. The program houses people experiencing homelessness in hotel

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rooms to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. The state has since filled more than 10,000 rooms,

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and officials are now considering ways to make the temporary program permanent.

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But long-term funding for Project Room Key is uncertain,

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and some local communities are resisting.

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We look at the program's future.

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Music You're listening to Forum from KQED. I'm Mina Kim. As of last week, the state has been able to place people who were living in emergency shelters or tent communities in more than 10,600 hotel rooms.

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But can this effort, known as Project Room Key, that was prompted by the pandemic to house people experiencing homelessness, become permanent housing?

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Some see this as a rare opportunity to make meaningful change for some of the

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state's homeless residents. We look at what lies ahead and we're joined by Tamika Moss. She's founder

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and chief executive of all home. Thanks for joining us on forum, Tamika Moss. Thank you, Mina. It's

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great to be here. Also with us is Erin Baldessari. She's our Housing Affordability Reporter here at KQED.

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