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As San Trancisco expands a shelter-in-place hotel program that leases rooms for vulnerable homeless people during the pandemic, the city has run into a roadblock: Some residents find where they’re staying more appealing than another permanent option.
Shelter-in-place hotels, opened during the pandemic for vulnerable homeless individuals, offer free private rooms with bathrooms and three meals a day at no cost to residents.
In contrast, a newly available permanent supportive housing option in a recently renovated hotel has communal bathrooms and charges 30% of a resident’s income as rent.
So far, around 70% of shelter-in-place hotel residents offered spots at the refurbished 232-unit Granada Hotel, purchased with $45 million from the state last year, turned down spots, Abigail Stewart-Kahn, of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, told supervisors last week.
“We have experienced a decline rate of people living in shelter-in-place hotels at a rate never experienced before in San Trancisco when offered permanent supportive housing,” Stewart-Kahn said.
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