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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

LA taps hotel rooms as estimated 40,000 people live homeless

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The new mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, said Sunday her administration will start moving homeless people from tent encampments into hotel and motel rooms through a new program that launches Tuesday.

Bass told NBC's “Meet the Press” host, Chuck Todd, that her plan to move homeless people into rooms immediately will not “address everybody, but it is going to address, hopefully, a significant number.” She said people will not be forced to move, but that sanitation crews will stand by to clean up areas after people have left.

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