User:Marisa Balades/Housing First/BeckMarin Peer Review

General info

 * Whose work are you reviewing?

Marisa Balades


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 * Literacy in the United States

Evaluate the drafted changes
(Compose a detailed peer review here, considering each of the key aspects listed above if it is relevant. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what feedback looks like.)

Hotels (where is this section going to go? also citations!!)
Hotels have been used historically to house the unhoused population temporarily while they work out further accommodations. For example, the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles had intentions of converting upwards of 400 units of housing for the local residents before the whole project got shut down by a greater interest in gentrification of the surrounding region (otherwise known as "Skid Row"). Given their ability to house a great number of individuals in a relatively small amount of space has made hotels recent point of interest with regards to transitional and emergency housing. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FEMA) even announced that their Public Assistance Program Category B is able to reimburse 75 percent of the expenses endured from obtaining temporary housing and shelter. This program specifically targets those sheltering in hotels as FEMA already stated that they have pre-established relationships with certain states in order to fund hotel stays. (f you are going to mention multiple legislation you can make them subcategories, it makes it less essay like)

Hotels have also become relevant in the conversation of Housing First as they've been used increasingly as a response to the global pandemic. Organizations like Hotels not Hospitals (HnH) in San Francisco have utilized hotels as a "first-step" towards long-term housing as COVID-19 became especially dangerous within the unhoused community. At the start of the pandemic, this organization immediately began funneling in as many at-risk unhoused individuals as they could into willing hotels. HnH essentially used the hotels as a buffer between protecting these individuals and establishing long-term housing arrangements.

HnH fits into the framework (essay talk) of Housing First as they operate without many questions asked. They've attempted to lower the barrier of entry to long-term housing for local San Franciscans by moving as many unhoused individuals into, now, apartments. By utilizing the Housing First framework, they've been able to protect the vulnerable from enduring a global pandemic without necessary, fundamental resources. Though hotels are not a permanent solution, they have boded well for non-state organizations to work out the long-term solutions amidst sudden, dangerous circumstances like COVID-19. (sounds like an essay)