LOS ANGELES—A measure that would require hotels in Los Angeles to place homeless people in vacant rooms and the city to consider its affordable housing needs before approving new hotel developments will appear on the March 2024 ballot.
If the measure is approved by voters, the city’s Housing Department would pay hotels a fair market rate to lodge each person after identifying hotels with vacant rooms. It would also require hotels to report the number of vacant rooms they have to the city and prohibit them from refusing lodging to homeless people seeking housing through the program.
