Costing $5.2 million a month, the program has been praised for preventing the spread of the coronavirus. But inewsource reporting since the program began in March 2020 has revealed mismanagement, neglect and harassment of guests staying at the hotels.
Unhoused people who have underlying medical conditions were given a room in a high-risk hotel in Old Town. But with it closing a month early, some fear they may wind up on the streets.
Workman said 30 of the 34 remaining guests have been given housing subsidies, but he would not provide details about the help county staff and contractors offer guests to place them into housing. Beem and his wife have been staying at the hotel for more than a year. This week, he said, Equus employees started telling guests that if they don’t find a place to live in the next couple weeks, they will be sent to a homeless shelter.
Beem said he has one of those subsidies and an apartment lined up, but they can’t move in until next month, and his wife has medical needs that cannot be met at a homeless shelter. The potential of having to go back to the streets, even for just a couple weeks, is causing incredible stress and anxiety.
“I’m personally shocked,” Zamudio said. “I find this to be an excuse because you’re speaking to someone who has been placing medically compromised unhoused folks into hotels for many, many, many years — as just one individual mother. I’m almost speechless.”
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