Any other cities also doing this? I hope so!

The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
COVID-19 News
City of Tucson and Hotels Are Teaming To Help Homeless Threatened by COVID-19 Outbreak
by Austin Counts

April 17, 2020

The City of Tucson is rolling out a new program today using local hotels to provide shelter and isolation for the homeless exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms or who are at high risk for contracting the disease.

The program currently has a total of 315 rooms, split between two hotels. One hotel will have 115 rooms dedicated to homeless people already ill and the other will offer 200 rooms for those who may be at high-risk, such as elderly homeless people, said Liz Morales, Director of City of Tucson’s Housing & Community Development Department.

“It has taken a lot of coordination but we are moving people from our shelters that are either symptomatic or at very high risk based on their age or underlying health conditions,” Morales said. “We have a screening tool that allows us to identify what category they meet, and then we move them based on that criteria.”

Read more at https://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2020/04/17/city-of-tucson-and-hotels-are-teaming-to-help-homeless-threatened-by-covid-19-outbreak