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Supervisors propose expansion and backfill of shelter-in-place hotels after FEMA pays retroactively
Summary
Supervisors introduced an emergency ordinance to keep and expand shelter-in-place hotel capacity, requiring 2,200 rooms be maintained over 60 days, backfilling 100% of rooms vacated and adding roughly 500 additional placements; the proposal follows a FEMA announcement of retroactive reimbursement.
Several supervisors on Feb. 9 introduced emergency legislation to expand and backfill the city's shelter-in-place (SIP) hotel program, saying new federal reimbursement guidance and ongoing COVID-19 risk make it essential to keep and broaden the program.
Supervisor Shamann Haney, the ordinance's lead sponsor, told colleagues that the city already houses about 1,850 people in SIP hotel rooms and that the new proposal would require the city to maintain a total of 2,200 hotel rooms, backfill rooms vacated by clients at a 100 percent rate, and make 200 to 300 more rooms available — a net capacity increase the sponsors said would…
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