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Re:The Hotel I Booked Online Became a Homeless Shelter and N... by divyekapoor on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:25PM (#33339010)
Booking.com is a large travel aggregator, Nasdaq listed (BKNG) with a 74B market cap - 6x the size of Expedia. They’re just not as big in North America.

And the reason she experienced what she did is because of Project Roomkey and other similar initiatives - https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/housing-...

These initiatives saved the hotel industry during COVID when demand fell off a cliff. These hotels still had mortgages but no clients. State intervention saved the industry.

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Re:The Hotel I Booked Online Became a Homeless Shelter and N... by WillPostForFood on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:38PM (#33339540)
These initiatives saved the hotel industry

This a massive overstatement. There are over 1,000 hotels in Los Angeles county, 35 participated in Project Roomkey. Hotels don't want to shelter homeless for obvious reasons. That's why LA now has a ballot initiative to force hotels to give up rooms to the homeless.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-05/initiati...

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