When California issued its shelter-in-place order on March 19, hotel occupancy rates throughout the state plunged into the single digits.
Meanwhile, much of the state’s homeless population — 151,000 people as of 2019 — lived in crowded shelters, on the streets or in outdoor encampments without sanitation facilities. Flash spreading of COVID-19 among the homeless was a serious public health risk.
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