LOS ANGELES, CA – A radical, far-left union representing “mostly women and people of color” has started a petition and will ask voters to decide whether hotels will be forced to allow homeless people to use their vacant rooms.

The group, Unite Here Local 11, is looking forward to a bill that will be put forth in 2024 that would require hotels in LA County to report their vacancies at 2:00pm every day, and then allow the homeless population to fill the open rooms. It’s unclear whether the hotels would be compensated for the use of their private property, and who would pay for that, if so.

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Kurt Peterson is the leader of the Local 11 group. He said, “We think this is one part of the solution. By no means do we think this solves the homelessness crisis. But do hotels have a role to play? Of course they do.”

Reportedly, there’s an estimated 60,000 people who are homeless in the county, and 20,000 hotel rooms sit empty at any one time. It’s unclear, too, whether the hotels would be given extra cleaning staff to be able to continue smooth operations if they should be forced by law to allow people to stay for free and keep their hotels at full capacity every night.

Once upon a time, one might laugh off proposed legislation such as this as impossible due to the utter unconstitutionality of it, violating a person’s right to private property. However, in 2022, and especially in California, one can expect anything to happen.

Valley Industry & Commerce Association’s president, Stuart Waldman, said the notion is “insane”: “It’s just insane. It isn’t going to solve the problem. I wouldn’t want my kids around people that I’m not sure about. I wouldn’t want to be in an elevator with somebody who’s clearly having a mental break. The idea that you can intermingle homeless folks with paying normal guests just doesn’t work out.”

As would be expected, Peterson claimed that the people being assisted are not those who choose to remain homeless in preference of feeding their drug habits or the criminals, but rather “working people.” He said, “There’s a certain class of people less than humans, animals, they’re almost described as, to be honest with you. They don’t seem to understand who the unhoused are. We’re talking about seniors, students, working people. That’s who the voucher program would benefit the most.”

Aside from the concerns of violating hotel owners’ rights as well as logistical issues that would be caused by such a bill, there are, of course, other concerns are raised as well.

Manoj Patel, manager at one of LA’s Motel 6 establishments, said that he currently has a system in place where he rents some rooms to homeless people, but these people are vetted and their rooms are paid for by a local church. “Honestly,” he said, “would you check into a hotel knowing that the chance of your neighbor to the left or right is a homeless individual?

“We barely are surviving, number one. Number two, we have to think of the safety of our staff. And number three, we’re not professionally or any otherwise equipped with any of the supporting mechanisms that the homeless guest would require.”

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“It’s up to the city. I mean, they did it during Project Room Key,” Peterson said, referring to a program during the height of the Covid pandemic where hotels volunteered to open some of its rooms for homeless people.

Apparently the bill would go even further, forcing developers to replace demolished housing with hotels.

Unite Here Local 11 is a highly partisan group who openly advocates for Democrat politicians.

This piece was written by Leah Anaya on August 26, 2022. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.

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