The Los Angeles City Council voted Dec. 5 to remove a ballot initiative from the March 2024 ballot that would have had voters decide if hotels should be required to house homeless persons in vacant rooms, replacing it with a compromise ordinance that will require hotels to replace any lost housing from hotel construction, and for them to join a volunteer registry of their vacant rooms for temporary housing for the homeless.
The ballot initiative, pushed by the union Unite Here Local 11, which represents over 32,000 hospitality workers in Southern California and Arizona, would have required hotels to accept government vouchers to house the homeless in their vacant rooms.
