California Launches Project Roomkey Initiative To Secure Rooms For Homeless Individuals During COVID-19 Crisis

On April 3, 2020, California launched Project Roomkey, an initiative to provide hotel and motel rooms to isolate homeless individuals deemed extremely vulnerable to COVID-19 in an effort to limit the spread of the disease. Additionally, the state has also contracted with Chef José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen to provide three meals a day to select Project Roomkey hotels through a statewide contract to support local efforts as needed. The goals of Project Roomkey are to protect public health by isolating the medically vulnerable, reducing the shelter population for social distancing, slowing the rate of spread of . . .