Advocates in cities across the country are pushing for homeless folks to be housed in vacant hotel rooms to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
or on the streets in vacant hotel rooms, and other major cities and states are taking similar precautions.to some of the 100,000 vacant hotel rooms in the city. Currently, only people with symptoms of the illness who do not need hospitalization are being taken to hotels, along with older folks over the age of 70.
“We’ve also begun the process of strategically transferring some of our most vulnerable clients, starting with those over 70, to dedicated shelters within our system for isolation out of an abundance of caution,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office said in a statement to Refinery29. This effort comes as social distancing requirements heighten in major cities like New York, where people are being fined for not abiding by these new rules.
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