The Latest Breaking News from Project Roomkey

L.A. Wants To Commandeer Vacant Hotel Rooms as Homeless Housing

Los Angeles voters will decide in March whether to force hotels to report empty rooms to the city and accept vouchers from homeless people.

Reason · Nov 13, 2023

Silicon Valley Sits on the Sidelines in the Fight Against Homelessness

With the right app, you can get anything you want. So why can’t the unhoused find one to help them get a roof over their heads?

Capital & Main · Feb 10, 2023

L.A. Hotel Workers Fight an Uphill Battle to Live Where They Work

Making developers who stoke the housing crisis repair the damage they’ve done.

Capital & Main · Feb 2, 2023

‘Where do they expect us to go?’ Life at one Bay Area encampment before eviction

For many unhoused Californians, disabilities make life at a temporary shelter nearly impossible

The Guardian - US · May 5, 2022

One year after LA evicted the unhoused from a park, few are in stable housing

Revealed: county data and interviews with displaced residents of Echo Park Lake suggest that many ended up back on the streets in worse conditions

The Guardian - US · Mar 23, 2022