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After SIP hotels get an extension, will unhoused residents get a new lease on life?

By TJ Johnston on September 6, 2021

As public health and homeless advocates urge San Francisco to keep the shelter-in-place (SIP) hotels open, the City announced that its plans to close two of the remaining 25 SIP hotels are put on hold through at least the end of the year, Street Sheet has learned.

Shelter-in-Place hotels are closing. Where will residents go?

By Thomas Brouns on February 11, 2021

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Alameda County has set an ambitious goal: To permanently house all the people who participated in their emergency COVID-19 shelter program.

San Francisco extends shelter-in-place hotel program

By Nuala Bishari on January 12, 2021

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The City of San Francisco will house more people in hotel rooms than it had planned thanks to a law the Board of Supervisors passed unanimously on December 15.

SF to close down Shelter-in-Place hotels. Where will residents go?

By Quiver Watts on December 2, 2020

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In November, plans to shut down Shelter-in-Place hotels, which are currently housing 2,400 otherwise homeless residents of San Francisco, leaked out of the COVID-19 Command Center. Where will they go?