A potential city ordinance on the LA City Council agenda Friday would require hotels and motels to offer up vacant rooms to help house people living on LA streets.
“We think there’s a misunderstanding of who these people are that would be getting housing,” said Maria Hernandez at Unite Here Local 11.
Hernandez says the union was able to get more than $126,000 signatures from LA voters to support this and believes it to be a win-win for hotel owners who will still get paid for rooms that otherwise would be empty.He says he’s owned the golden tower motel in koreatown for 25 years and knows what can happen.
“They could destroy the rooms, tag them with graffiti,” he says, and that costs more to fix than the nightly room rate. And he worries the city of LA isn’t offering any guarantees for safety and security. And there’s also an argument that the initiative disproportionately affects smaller mom-and-pop hotels and motels because their nightly prices are cheaper than bigger chains. “That depends, right? we’ll see what happens but at the end of the day the voucher program would make it so vacant hotel rooms could be used for housing,” Hernandez said.
If the council votes in favor of the initiative tomorrow, it becomes law in 30 days. If not, it would go to voters in 2024.
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