A hotel in Los Angeles that was converted into temporary homeless shelter suffers from damages worth $11.5 million.
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Mayfair Hotel was included by the city of L.A to be part of the Project Roomkey, a federal initiative to turn hotels in California into a temporary homeless shelter.
At the end of the hotel’s time in the temporary homeless shelter program, the city quietly paid the hotel’s owner to cover damages from residents of the said temporary homeless shelter. Social workers assigned to the said temporary homeless shelter lamented its condition in emails.
One social worker wrote that one of the temporary homeless shelter participant threatened staff, Security, destroyed property, screamed and cursed both inside and outside the temporary homeless shelter building.
Another recounted how “a male temporary homeless shelter participant in 1526 assaulted another resident in Room 726.”
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The Mayfair Hotel was one of the temporary homeless shelter in which the state and local government paid for damages.
The Mayfair Hotel is an example of how California’s state and local governments have spent a significant amount of money on a temporary homeless shelter to tackle the issue of homelessness.
Mayor Karen Bass expresses the want to buy the Mayfair and turn it into housing for the homeless; however, locals are opposing this plan.
Locals don’t want a repeat of the problems they experienced when the Mayfair previously housed homeless residents from different neighborhoods, ArcaMax says.
ArcaMax added that Bass and her team are working to reassure neighbors that the Mayfair, once it is owned by the city, Project Roomkey will be distinctly different from before.
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