Governor Visits Project Roomkey Site to Highlight Progress on State’s Initiative to Protect Homeless Individuals from COVID-19
This is a press release from the office of Governor Gavin Newsom:
[Saturday], Governor Gavin Newsom visited a Project Roomkey motel in Santa Clara County to highlight progress that the state and counties have made together in providing safe isolation capacity to protect people experiencing homelessness from COVID-19.
The state’s effort, Project Roomkey, has directly led to 10,974 hotel and motel rooms statewide being made available for this extremely vulnerable group of Californians
These Project Roomkey placements are spread across 42 counties and are already providing safe shelter to people experiencing homelessness, with 4,211 rooms occupied. The counties are responsible for identifying which individuals need a Project Roomkey placement, and then moving those individuals into the rooms.
In addition, Governor Newsom announced that the State of California has reached agreement with the Motel 6 chain to make available all of its corporate-owned locations to counties, effective immediately, with a master agreement template. Counties have the option to adopt the operating agreement for the locations within their jurisdiction, if they so choose. This master agreement, if all locations are adopted, includes an additional 5,025 rooms above and beyond the total number of rooms already under county control. This portfolio includes 47 different hotels in 19 counties around the state.
“Today marks an important milestone for our efforts to protect very vulnerable homeless individuals from COVID-19, and to protect our hospitals more broadly from surges that challenge our capacity and stress our system,” said Governor Newsom. “Many of California’s counties have done a fantastic job getting Project Roomkey hotels up and running. We need to do more – and faster – of course, but there’s no doubt California is leading the way when it comes to treating our homeless population with the compassion and urgency this moment demands.”
“Motel 6 is pleased to support Governor Newsom and the State of California’s efforts to provide assistance during the pandemic, including lodging for our most vulnerable populations and first responders,” said Rob Palleschi, CEO of G6 Hospitality LLC. “The partnership will streamline the process for counties across the state who have a need for additional shelter. Motel 6 was born in California in 1962, and we are proud to support the State’s effort to ‘leave a light on’ for citizens in need.”
Earlier this month, Governor Newsom announced a reimbursement partnership with FEMA, whereby local, state, and tribal governments are eligible to 75 percent cost-share for Project Roomkey activities, including hotel and motel rooms and wraparound supports such as meals, security, and custodial services.
These emergency protective measures are protecting public health by isolating the medically vulnerable, thinning out the shelter population for social distancing, slowing the rate of spread of COVID-19 and, in turn, flattening the curve.
A key component of this effort is state technical assistance to county social services agencies, cities, tribes, homeless continuums of care, and others. Specifically, the Department of Social Services has provided individualized technical assistance regarding core operating supports for the sites, how to leverage funding sources, and has facilitated convenings for service providers to develop a unified approach to addressing homelessness. The Department of General Services has also provided individualized technical assistance to help communities establish occupancy agreements with local property owners to secure emergency housing.
In addition, the Governor announced several other important milestones to support people experiencing homelessness.
Earlier this week, the state executed a master agreement with Chef José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen. Through this partnership, counties can access this contract to provide three meals a day to clients of Project Roomkey.
The state also passed an important milestone by surpassing 1,000 travel trailers delivered to county partners. These trailers provide the same isolation capacity for people experiencing homelessness under Project Roomkey. These trailers, which now total 1,133 are spread across 13 different counties. This total includes 28 trailers donated through an anonymous donor in partnership with Homeful, a California-based nonprofit focused on eradicating homelessness.
Finally, Governor Newsom’s administration has initiated a partnership with counties and continuums of care to provide access to necessary personal protective equipment to shelter operators and other front-line homelessness workers. This partnership ensures these essential social services workers are able to receive crucial supplies, as noted in recent guidance released by the California Department of Public Health. Earlier this week, the first shipment of 27,000 N95 masks were sent to Los Angeles for use in their Project Roomkey facilities. These resources can be requested through counties’ emergency services offices.
[Saturday], Governor Gavin Newsom visited a Project Roomkey motel in Santa Clara County to highlight progress that the state and counties have made together in providing safe isolation capacity to protect people experiencing homelessness from COVID-19.
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So let’s see, 11,000 motel rooms, 1000 travel trailers, and, hmmmmmmmm, a reported 150,000 homeless.
OK, so I applaud attempts to house the un-housed, but, there is a serious shortfall here… and these folks need mental health services, regular medical services, detox and rehab, job placement, food service, nutritional advice and on and on…
Meanwhile:
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Santa-Clara-antibody-test-study-Stanford-COVID-19-15210149.php
Experts are trying to back up from the antibody study done by Stanford, but the fact remains that many more have been exposed, and the hospitalization rate/fatality rate, both are much lower than previously thought or reported.
The rate of irrational fear, is currently still high, and maintaining the fear appears to be continuing to be supported as the main goal
of our government…
It is amusing that whatever Mr Newsom says or does, it’s to reduce the load on hospitals, but, the surge didn’t come, and:
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Patients-with-heart-attacks-strokes-15211418.php
people are afraid to use the hospital at all, even when they have serious symptoms!
So, Gavin Newsom, how are we really preventing our hospitals from “being overwhelmed” when really the only overwhelming facet of the government’s response to C-19 is to institute fear and chaos?
Hospitals are laying off staff, cancelling contracts, and letting the preparations fall off!
Saying we are doing anything at all to prevent overwhelming hospitals, has become trite, even ridiculous.
Send Gavin Newsom your response! End the lockdown. Open the economy and stop the churning of people’s emotions with phony official fear-mongering…
Firstly,
My president promised free mass testing.
Latest count: 41,155 in the USA alone. I’m sorry you never learned how a virus works. Sorry people trying NOT to die ‘inconveniences’ you so much.
I don’t think you know how they work
Representing less than 4% of total deaths in the USA this year.
Using these numbers:
2.8 million deaths in the USA in 2017 according to CDC
We are 38% through the year (1/1 – 4/20)
So, 1.07 million deaths so far
41k reported Covid 19 related deaths= 3.8% of total US deaths in 2020.
The first US case was not on 1/1.
Actually, we didn’t even have 1,000 diagnosed cases till 3/11.
Why not adjust your math for a more stable approach to real numbers?
Why not adjust to the first shelter in place rules date for arbitration?
Or, as we now know 10,000 US deaths a week is easy, say 52 weeks x 10,000?
That would be 520,000 a year.
But that’s an undercount because there are no variables like early physical distancing measures.
And it doesn’t take into account the hardest hit areas would take the large shares of those deaths.
New York, LA, San Fran, New Jersey all would cease functioning as the economic capitals they are anyway.
If I use the time frame from first confirmed case on 1/22 the total deaths from covid 19 versus all other deaths is 4.5%.
You’re trying to use the highest possible numbers and extrapolating to inflate results. I’m using real, known numbers.
So, for the record, are you predicting that coronavirus related deaths will be close to 20% of all deaths in the USA this year?
The way you’re making your numbers point is like saying there are no earthquakes because the earth is always moving.
You’re ignoring the sudden jolt to explain movement in general.
Or, here, you’re ignoring the real rates of spread that has been observed to make a point about mortality.
How many deaths depends on how we move forward.
But the real rate of US deaths is observable.
You seem adverse to the point and fact that 10,000 US deaths a week is happening.
Why do you think that would change if we went back to normal tomorrow?
Almost 3 million people die each year in the US. That is 57,000 per week. The excess death rate for covid-19 has yet to be determined. But it will certainly be less than the number of covid-19 deaths plus the normal deaths because a significant number of the people who die from covid-19 would have died in the same year from other things. People in nursing homes. People with serious health issues.
While there is likely to be more deaths just as there would be from any “bad” flu year, the questions raised are how much devastation to the economy is justified in the name of saving lives and how long it is reasonable to try. If driving enough people into long term poverty, personal bankruptcy or social despair causes more excess deaths than isolating people saves, it is a poor policy choice. And discussing that is meaningful. Trying to bully people into not talking about it may do much more damage.
What can the economy sustain by ignoring the virus?
How many deaths before markets react?
How long until cities like New York and LA, San Fran and others begin losing thousands a day, then, how long until people are really freaked out by the numbers?
When would people stop going to work?
When would employers realise it costs less to close for 3 months than to battle with a virus killing and harming its employees for 2 years.
Do you think people will travel with an increasing likelihood of catching Covid?
Will tourism just ignore the virus?
How long?
How about increasing all death numbers because our hospital system and supply chain are overwhelmed?
How long will the economy survive on that?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/how-many-people-have-died-in-nyc-during-the-covid-pandemic
Governor of the California Republic?
Is California a Nation?
Is newsom a nationalist?
Hmm.
Looks like Californians are nationalists after all, and Newsom even believes he has the authority to govern people’s behavior(dictator?), but what about borders you ask?
He says keep the borders open, but control the behavior of actual citizens to a rediculous degree, just to butterfly net their globalist flu bug.
Anyone can see now, I hope, that it is not wise to let political “representatives” outsource(sell out)our national supply chain.
How some people are just noticing this obvious flaw In our society, is the real question.
Interesting news:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-tennessee-announce-plans-to-reopen-some-businesses-wind-down-coronavirus-stay-at-home-orders
About f’ing time…
Because this is a priority… ?The smell of socialism is becoming overwhelming. Have we forgot about the people who actually want to work and get ahead in life? What we will have is just 10 times more homelessness if we don’t address the real problem, economic failure due to inadequate governance.Beware, there are morons at the wheel.
“When one has nothing, they will do anything for something.” (Me)
Beware, there are morons posting here. FTFY,
Trump needs to put his ass where his mouth is. I think it would be useful if he would hold his major ass kissing rallies all over the country. Then we could get all you Trumpkins together in close proximity and find out if this social distancing stuff is really bullshit.
This is an article about the governor. I hope that helps, but if not, there are various reading comprehension tutorials available online. Good luck.
…… we already now it’s bullshit. Enjoy your soup lines, just remember it’s 6’ apart in line, mandatory masks. We don’t want any jobless, homeless and improvised individuals to be catching the flu and overwhelming our empty hospitals.
“The truth is only presumed rumors spread by gullible minds.”
(Me)
What on earth are you talking about, Mr Kirby? Use your words… Trump and his idiocracy is the largest constant in the “equation of stupidity”…
Newsom is our problem, and he is no fan of Trump.
Your President’s name appears nowhere in the article Dave.
Does he pay you rent for the space he occupies in your head?
Maybe, maybe not but “the Liberals” live rent free in the minds of a lot of regular posters here. Full time residency. Not an article is posted that they don’t spill out onto these threads out of their brains.
You guys don’t choose who or what someone posts about, I thought you Trumpers were all about free speech. Funny how you try to shut down others…
How does addressing a symptom fix the problem? Like Fan said, what about the people who have worked hard, made sacrifices, and been responsible to get what they have? Do we get a voucher for a week stay at a hotel in San Francisco? Fair is fair right?
Some cheese and crackers with that whine?
Please people. Throughly read the article of project room key. Scary sh!t. This is the solution that our governor has. .They are planning on having a large percentage of California being homeless.This is not salvation,this is control. This is not a solution, this is a band-aid on a dire immediate problem! Free government paid housing? Free government assistance checks? Fear installed lockdowns and abolishment of personal freedoms? Free food pantry lines? This is socialism! This is liberal run California. This is your future.Wake the fuk up
People!
OMG I AM SO FRIGGIN SCARED!!! OMG OMG OMG. RUN FOR IT!! SKY IS FALLING,
Remember way, way back to 4 days ago when 20,000 Americans died in the previous 2 weeks to Covid 19?
Now it’s over 20,000 Americans dead in the previous10 days.
That’s with the results of physical distancing.
Don’t let the Proud Boys, Infowars and Trump fool ya with their misinformation rally.
Your Sadly missing the bigger picture real Brian ……I’m not relaying on The great golden pheasant, info wars or these proud boys you speak of. History repeats itself, pull your head out of the sand and look around you….. o you can’t, your in lockdown, your blind, how convenient. Death comes in many forms Brian, good luck buddy.
Only the ignorant would allow that.
People’s republic of California
Free room and free three meals a day for the homeless. What a great way to enable them further and screw the working people at the same time. How about trying to help the ones willing to help themselves, wild guess thats about five percent, and cut off the rest.
30% of the United States is now jobless, how about those stats real Brian? That’s over 100 million people who won’t be able to pay there mortgage, taxes or provide food for there family’s. This is not temporary as the government makes you believe, this will have permanent effects, it already has, contenueing for another month, 3 months? It will only exacerbate the situation 10 fold. I ask you this,what’s better? Death or suffering?
You don’t understand anything.
If we ignored the virus, there would be no ignoring it.
If 10,000 deaths a day from a virus that we have no protection from became normal, the economy would suffer way more, for way longer, and way more death.
The Hong Kong flu, so far pretty equivalent , was followed by a .6 GDP contraction over 11 months. Just one month of the covid-19 contraction is already responsible for that much.
Then there are long term long term effects that have not yet become obvious. Just as the government wants to stimulate GDP with cash, it has already increased the debt massively and will have seriously less flexibility for quite some time. If it merrily prints up money, then inflation runs out of control. The word “stagflation” may be resurrected.
I think Trump will be blamed but he will end up being blamed for the results if doing what you want past all reason.
Our financial capitals would be the hardest hit areas of any virus.
New York has managed to earn 20% of US coronavirus cases, and 30% of the deaths.
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-coronavirus-cases-deaths-hospitalizations-by-age-chart-2020-3
The markets would hate it. People would too.
In comparison to ’68, look at the intensity duration:
The outbreak in Hong Kong, where population density is greater than 6,000 people per square kilometre, reached maximum intensity in two weeks, lasting six months in total from July to December 1968. However, worldwide deaths from this virus peaked much later, in December 1968 and January 1969.
Six months of peak intensity.
And I’m not sure about the comparison in total.
The Hong Kong flu came through in four years, but primarily in ’68 and ’69.
How many US deaths?
The CDC estimated 100,000 people died in the U.S.
And we’re at half that amount in 2 months with Covid deaths, including a very slow rollout.
We’re currently hitting 10,000 US deaths a week from Coronavirus, to be realistic.
Most likely, in 4 weeks from today we will be passed our ’68 flu death numbers.
And take note again of this from the ’68 episode…..
fewer people died during this pandemic than in previous pandemics for various reasons:
1)some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains which had been circulating since 1957
2)the pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays, thus limiting the infection spreading
Look at #2! Unintended physical distancing.
Things have changed, I’m glad we’ve learned something.
Also of note in the Hong Kong Flu Wiki:
Despite the lethality of the 1957 Asian Flu in China, little improvement had been made regarding the handling of such epidemics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu
“If we try to be certain before we act, we never act.”
(Unknown)
Mother Nature has the cure for our ignorance,greed, and lack of responsibility for our home we call Earth. The virus is not the problem, we are. Ignoring the truth only drags on the inevitable. Brian…. we could both be right, ironically we can’t blame religion or politics or race on this, maybe there is no winning this time around….
I’m not really into self-hating to excuse the woes of the day.
Many people are confident and competent enough to make decisions.
But most don’t have what it takes to be a decisive and fair politician.
The only reason Republicans want to reopen before the virus has run it’s course is so they can avoid having to do anything to fulfill their promises of aid.
People who want to reopen have little regard for making their countrymen fatally ill. That’s not love of country; that’s typical closed minded contempt for science and society.
They are public safety threats same as our President.
Not at all. They just know covid-19 is much less likely to kill you than starvation, the government created recession or rioting. Probably , if a person works for or is supported by the government, they might think that there is no real harm from ordering the economy shut down. But even the government, armed with money printing power, can not sustain taxing little money out of formerly working people while paying them to stay home.
Talk about a public safety threat. Panicked social control addicts are going to the biggest ones.
COVID 19 IS FAKE
THERE IS NO TEST FOR IT
worse yet the test they use gives 30 percent false positives to what is being tested…dead lung tissue
These people are ALL dying of other causes.
AND YOU ALL LOOK WEAK AND CREEPY IN YOUR MASKS AND YOUR FEAR OF ME
Smarten up Humboldt. Especially you women. COWARDS
Is this troll speak? Because the only part of that comment that has any reality is just egregiously rude.
He was probably up all night on the InfoWars site, cut him some slack.
It is interesting that the middle of the road liberals seem to be the real lockdown cheerleaders.
All of a sudden, they want to defend the elderly, protect their countrymen and act prudently(conservatively)?
I thought the the left wanted to blow out all the borders, let the prisoners out and change our entire language to accommodate puny demographics!
The tables have turned indeed.
Now the same people who want you to roll over and let foreigners hijack our society are sneering and shunning about the village if you don’t take their frailty as seriously as they do.
I’m not discounting that this virus is transformational, but we are not at a place where opposition demographics are willing to trust each other’s narratives.
Sorry.
The tables have turned indeed.
The squares are sweating.
We have way bigger problems than a virus created by twisted science experts.
What world is everybody clinging too?
Haven’t you already imagined it all slipping away years ago?
Shows you don’t know much about “Liberals”, doesn’t it.
Why come here and repeat every talking point known to Trumpers? We’ve already heard it it all, haven’t we? No one wants “open borders” yet you cons got this worm in your head and you can’t get rid of it.
I know alot about the liberal milieu, being a recovering environmental and social justice activist.
I can smell the ideology I used to espouse from quite a distance, lol.
And yes, liberals do want the equivalent of open borders, even if only through massive legal immigration, amnesty for illegal residents, and lenient social policy that encourages recidivist crossings.
I view this as synonymous to open borders.
I, on the other hand, want zero immigration, international and intranational, and I want all work visas cancelled as well.
If college age kids don’t want to join the military, they can do their service on the farms, replacing the slave laborers from Mexico.
If farming was a cool scene, if it was a tradition, and the money was decent, youngsters would do it.. just like they flock from all over the world to dope farms, for what? To inhale fake soil and amendments, to sit for months all day and night in chairs, basically living the life of a migrant field worker already..
Problem solved.
Open borders were only cool last year…..
Tell that to Nancy and Chuck, and all their disciples who keep voting against borders. Liberals just can’t face the truth about their beliefs.
That’s an outright lie.
🕯🌳Not once has ” not my potus ” had any prayers or condolences for those that have died,or there families, only hate and anger about not making money. 🕯🐸🖖