Posted on 08/05/2022 11:24:15 AM PDT by Mark
LOS ANGELES - On Friday, the Los Angeles City Council will consider passing an ordinance that would house homeless people in empty hotel rooms. If it passes, every hotel in Los Angeles will have to report their vacancies. According to the measure, "Each hotel shall communicate to the Department or its designee, in a form that the Department prescribes, by 2 p.m. each day the number of available rooms at the hotel for that night."
"It’s crazy," said Ray Patel, the president of the Northeast Los Angeles Hotel Owners Association. Patel said members of the association are worried. "I can't screen who ends up in my hotel rooms?" he said. "How do I protect my other customers and my staff?" Members of Unite Here Local 11, who are behind the initiative, say they have already gathered 126,000 signatures in favor. Council members could decide to put it on the ballot if they don’t approve it outright.
Maria Hernandez, communications director of Unite Here Local 11 said this picks up where the phased-out Project Room Key left off. The Los Angeles initiative paid hotels to house homeless individuals during the pandemic but did not force them. This initiative includes language indicating that hotels not accepting the vouchers could be sued.
FOX 11 reached out to Mike Feuer's office for comment and staff with the Los Angeles City Attorney issued the following statement:
"This is a third-party sponsored ballot measure and our Office cannot comment on it before passage. I would ask the proponents what enforcement measures they are proposing."
The Council will discuss the initiative Friday and do have the option to either approve it or let the voters decide in a future election. However, one thing is for certain: Friday's meeting should bring a lot of public interest, possibly drawing loud reactions.
Wait are they saying hobos can sleep at the Ritz Carlton and Beverly Hilton Hotel for free..dang, I might have to identity as homeless now
Remind me not to stay in any hotels while I’m in L.A.
What if a normal person hypothetically wanted to pull over in L.A. during a long road trip and find a room? No vacancies after 2 p.m.?
I can imagine a lot of hotels closing up their LA operations when this idiocy passes.
Good send them to the Four Seasons & Beverly Hilton.
I am pretty sure that violated the Takings Clause of the 5th Amendment.
I don’t want to stay in a hotel with a bunch of homeless people. and I would not book a hotel that had a rep for having homeless people. giving MORE homeless on a daily basis.
So, what you’ll get is defacto homeless shelters. Where hotel owners are forced to house them.
The hotel owners should put that if any city council people have empty rooms any any of their properties, THEY are forced to house them. Put THAT on the ballot, see how many more votes it gets.
I might have to identity as homeless now
= = =
After you get your new SSN at the border.
Eventually, AirBnB, Vrbo, etc. will have to cough up the same info...
Who is going to bus or transport the individuals to the rooms late at night when the occupancy is determined?
If that happens, the hotels in LA will be filled with ONLY the homeless.
“We’re movin’ into da Hilton”.
Violation of the takings clause of the Constitution. That’s ok, all of the sane people are fleeing CA anyway. Let them have their cesspool under the sun.
NYC started doing this about 3 years ago.
AirBnB should love this
I spend a lot of money on hotels, and I travel to L.A. quite frequently.
There’s lots of hotel properties outside of L.A. city limits. I’m guessing I’ll be making some adjustments, as will many visitores. What a stupid move.
They’ll do it. Bank on it.
This place is comrade central USA.
As if that pesky thing called the "Constitution" is going to stop the progtard left-wingers in Kalifornication from doing this? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I wonder if any of those 126,000 signatures are willing to take some illegal aliens into their own spare bedrooms ???
That will be next ...
it wont take long to run out of hotel rooms ...
Those illegal aliens arent there for a short vaca ...
Theyre there to stay for a long while ...
Once in a nice hotel with all their meals etc they wont be in a hurry to move on ...
This is what they came for nice room and board etc and someone else paying all the bills ...
Then the state just takes the hotels under immanent domain..
Which is probably the point.. But cost of hotels will skyrocket, as less hotels are available. And probably tourism will take a massive hit too.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.