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Some Hotels for Unsheltered People Are Closing. Where Will They Go?

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A demonstrator holds a sign in the Mission in San Francisco on Nov, 16, 2020, calling for shelter-in-place hotel rooms to remain available for unhoused residents. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)

When the pandemic hit, thousands of unsheltered people were moved into hotels under a plan known as Project Roomkey. Gov. Gavin Newsom said the goal was to eventually move people into permanent housing. But early data from seven Bay Area counties analyzed by KQED shows that most people discharged from hotels have not found a more secure home.

Now, some of those hotels are closing, and as coronavirus cases surge again the question still remains: Where will the unhoused go?

Guest: Erin Baldassari, KQED housing reporter and co-host of Sold Out, a podcast about the challenges and solutions to our housing crisis.

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