{"id":2002796,"date":"2023-08-16T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-hotel-converted-to-homeless-housing-suffers-11-5-million-in-damages\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T17:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T21:12:53","slug":"la-hotel-converted-to-homeless-housing-suffers-11-5-million-in-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-hotel-converted-to-homeless-housing-suffers-11-5-million-in-damages\/","title":{"rendered":"LA hotel converted to homeless housing incurs $11.5M in damages."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fla-hotel-converted-to-homeless-housing-suffers-11-5-million-in-damages%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2002796&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Homeless \u2063Tent Encampment\u2064 in Los Angeles<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/example.com\/homeless-tent-encampment.jpg\" alt=\"Homeless tent encampment in Los Angeles\"><br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<h3>Millions in Damages at Los \u2063Angeles Hotel\u200d Turned \u200dHomeless Shelter<\/h3>\n<p>A Los \u2063Angeles hotel sustained $11.5 million in damages \u200dwhile\u2063 the city used it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-hotel-converted-to-homeless-housing-suffers-11-5-million-in-damages\/\" title=\"LA hotel converted to homeless housing incurs .5M in damages.\">federally sponsored homeless shelter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2062 city included the\u2063 Mayfair Hotel in Project Roomkey, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-jen-rubin-now-admits-covid-19-is-not-deadly-or-even-severe-for-most-responsible-americans\/\" title=\"Even Jen Rubin Now Admits COVID-19 Is \u2018Not Deadly Or Even Severe\u2019 For Most Responsible Americans\">federal initiative<\/a> \u2062to turn \u200bCalifornia hotels into\u2062 temporary \u200bhomeless shelters. At the end of the hotel&#8217;s time in\u200b the\u2062 program, the city quietly paid the hotel&#8217;s owner \u2062millions to cover damages from residents.\u2062 Social workers assigned to the hotel lamented its \u200ccondition in emails obtained \u2063by the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Participant in 1516 Threatened staff, Security,\u200d destroyed property. Screamed. Yelled cursed. Everything went wrong with her. Inside \u2063and outside the building,&#8221; \u2063one social\u2064 worker wrote. Another recounted how \u2064&#8221;a \u200cmale in 1526 assaulted \u200banother resident in Room 726.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>High Costs of Addressing\u2064 Homelessness in California<\/h3>\n<p>The Mayfair \u2064represents the latest instance in\u200c which state and local \u2062governments have paid a huge \u200cprice to address \u2063the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/l-a-housing-officials-enjoy-hefty-pay-amid-homeless-crisis\/\" title=\"L.A. housing officials enjoy hefty pay amid homeless crisis\">homelessness crisis<\/a> in California.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego \u2064in April\u2063 requested state funds to buy three hotels at $383,000 per room to \u200bhouse its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-wave-of-portland-police-quit-amid-massive-spike-in-shootings-and-stabbings-fire-dept-responding-to-10-homeless-tent-fires-a-day\/\" title=\"Another Wave Of Portland Police Quit Amid Massive Spike In Shootings And Stabbings; Fire Dept. Responding To 10+ Homeless Tent Fires A Day\">homeless population<\/a>. \u200dThe city\u200c saw homelessness hit record highs in the months leading up to the purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Between \u2064September 2021 and \u200bJune \u20642022, the city of Berkeley alone removed 75 tons of garbage, drug paraphernalia, and human feces from\u200c homeless \u200bencampments. With an \u200cestimated 535 people living on the street at the time, \u2064the city removed \u2062roughly \u200b500 pounds of waste per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/serial-stowaway-marilyn-hartman-who-once-flew-to-london-without-a-ticket-arrested-in-airport-for-22nd-time\/\" title=\"\u2018Serial Stowaway\u2019 Marilyn Hartman, Who Once Flew To London Without A Ticket, Arrested In Airport For 22nd Time\">homeless person<\/a> per\u200d year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Challenges\u200c with California&#8217;s Homelessness Policy<\/h3>\n<p>Experts have attributed the state&#8217;s struggles with homelessness to the so-called Housing \u2064First principle,\u200d which became the\u2064 state&#8217;s law \u200dof the land\u200c for homelessness\u200c policy in 2016. The \u2063practice focuses almost exclusively on providing subsidized housing to the homeless without requiring them to undergo treatment for substance abuse or mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>In July, President Joe Biden&#8217;s\u2062 Department of \u200cHousing and Urban Development announced its \u200dinvestment\u200c of $3 \u200dbillion into Housing\u2064 First programs across the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as a homeless shelter, it incurred $11.5 million in damages. The Mayfair Hotel in Los Angeles was part of Project Roomkey, a federal program converting hotels into temporary shelters for the homeless. However, when its tenure as a shelter ended, the hotel suffered significant financial losses due to the damages incurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2112,"featured_media":2002797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}