Project Roomkey

California spending billions on plan to house homeless …

In this Wednesday, June 30, 2021, photo Veronica Perez poses outside her new home at the Mollie Mason Project Homekey site in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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L.A. hasn’t asked for millions of dollars feds may owe …

Wendy Brown, 58, who spent three years sleeping on Venice sidewalks, enters a room arranged through Project Roomkey at the Cadillac Hotel in June 2020. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Federal aid allows L.A. to extend rentals of hotel rooms …

Wendy Brown enters her room at the Cadillac Hotel in Venice on June 1, 2020, as part of Project Roomkey.(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

California’s pandemic program to shelter homeless people …

Wendy Brown enters her room at the Cadillac Hotel in Venice on June 1, 2020, as part of Project Roomkey.(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Program to house L.A.’s homeless population in hotels …

A homeless man moves his belongings from a street behind Los Angeles City Hall as crews prepared to clean the area on July 1, 2019. (Richard Vogel / Associated Press)

Why didn’t these L.A. hotels house homeless people? A …

An undated photo shows two hotels at L.A. Live in downtown L.A. that did not take part in Project Roomkey. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. officials propose $800 million plan to house 15,000 …

Tents housing the homeless line a street in downtown Los Angeles, California on April 22, 2020, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Frederic J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)

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L.A. County falling short on goal to secure hotel …

Wendy Brown enters her room at the Cadillac Hotel in Venice on June 1, 2020, as part of Project Roomkey.(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Thousands of rooms leased by California to help homeless …

Omar Spry of Los Angeles Housing + Community Investment Department pushes a cart of residents’ bags into a West L.A. hotel that has been turned into housing for homeless people during the coronavirus outbreak.(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Ritz-Carlton residents in downtown L.A. resist potential …

The Ritz-Carlton hotel in downtown Los Angeles appears on May 6, 2020. (KTLA)