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California voters will decide on a controversial proposal in 2024 to determine whether hotels will have to offer empty rooms to homeless people, CNN reported.
The measure is being pushed by Kurt Peterson, who represents hotel workers in Los Angeles. Peterson claims the measure would not solve the homeless problem. “We think this is part of the solution,” he commented.
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Stuart Waldman, president of the Valley Association of Commerce and Industry, thinks differently and expressed disagreement with the proposal. “It’s just insane. It isn’t going to solve the problem,” Waldman said.
California hotel workers
Waldman agrees with Manoj Patel, manager of a motel that voluntarily rents some rooms to homeless people through a process paid for by a local church. In addition, Patel points out that there could be losses for hotels because they would have fewer visitors.
“Honestly, would you check into a hotel knowing that the chance of your neighbor to the left or right is a homeless individual? We barely are surviving, number one. Number two, we have to think of the safety of our staff. And number three, we’re not professionally or any otherwise equipped with any of the supporting mechanisms that the homeless guest would require,” he concluded.
Williams Perdomo es periodista y escritor, especializado en las fuentes Política y Cultura.