Potentially thousands of vacant hotel rooms are ripe for conversion into permanent residences, deputy mayor, housing groups and hotel owners agree.
City officials are looking to capitalize on a distressed tourism industry by converting commercial hotels into affordable housing — including creating single room occupancy units known as SROs.
The exploration of cheaper alternatives for affordable housing and supportive housing — offering health care and social services for people with mental illness or substance abuse disorders — comes as the city struggles to overcome a fiscal crisis prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.
RSK: You saw this coming weeks ago...what is next? Restaurants becoming food kitchens....don`t laugh. Many will not make it through the pandemic or the rioting and looting.
Ken Notes: done right this could work. Units sub 50K could be "sold" to homeless using a stipend/credit system for good behavior and unit maintenance. Of course in government hands this will be a mess. We should give all the bankrupt hotels to Habitat for Humanities and let them run the entire program.
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