Nearly 12 percent of the shelter population lives in hotel rooms. The arrangement is faulted for its cost and impact, but with 60,000 homeless, a ‘cluster-site’ program under fire and no shortage of NIMBY grandstanding against new shelters, it’s not likely to disappear.
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