for the hotel rooms online. the number one priority is to discharge or divert individuals who need to quarantine because they are covid positive or have been tested and are showing symptoms. divert from the hospital or discharge from the hospital when they don't need to be there. 95% of these individuals are homeless. remaining would be those in single room occupancy hotels and can't quarantine at their home. next population that is important for hotel rooms are the vulnerable population, which are individuals aged 60 and older or individuals who have underlying health conditions that make them more vulnerable to the covid virus. first priority among this population would be the vulnerable in the homeless shelters. as we move to reducing the census in the shelters to create the physical distance -- physical distance required we will move to hotel rooms if they can self-care. if they can be in the room on their own with the minimum level of support from the city annan e nonprofit providers. then it is the front l

there are many factors that go into opening hotel rooms that include hotel staffing, meals, transportation, security, cleaning and i want to thank our departments at h.s.a., the department of public health, the emergency operations center run by the department of emergency management and the nonprofit community for helping us move forward as rapidly as possible. thank you. i'm going to introduce jeff tamblin, the director of m.t.a. hello, my name is jeffery tamblinful as a life-long advocate of transit and as the director of the sfmta, i never thought i would say this. but please, if you have any other option for getting around, please do not ride muni. for the duration of the public health emergency, muni is only for delivering essential workers to work and allowing san franciscans to access essential services. if you need to get around for some other purpose, please find another way. if you have the ability to drive or walk or ride a bicycle, please choose those modes. in order to ensure that there is adequate space available on our muni buses for the people who need it the most. many of

i mentioned earlier we have under contract 2082 hotel rooms across 13 hotels. two sites are for first responders totalling 880 rooms. the rest of the rooms, 1202, are for the vulnerable populations i noted above. the vast majority of them being homeless individuals from homeless shelters or discharged from hospitals. of those 1202 rooms we have under contract, 751 of them are currently filled. 447 of that number are directly from our shelter system. i'll be on hand to answer questions after this. at this point i'll turn it over to chief scott, san francisco police chief. thank you. good afternoon, everyone. first i want to thank again our mayor, mayor breed, for her outstanding leadership during this pandemic. as we work to all flatten the curve and stop the spread of covid-19, it's important that we hold each other accountable. from the beginning of this pandemic, i've talked about our first and foremost job was to educate the public rather than go straight to enforcement. i think we've done and continue do a good job of that. i've also made it clear we will n

for the hotel rooms online. the number one priority is to discharge or divert individuals who need to quarantine because they are covid positive or have been tested and are showing symptoms. divert from the hospital or discharge from the hospital when they don't need to be there. 95% of these individuals are homeless. remaining would be those in single room occupancy hotels and can't quarantine at their home. next population that is important for hotel rooms are the vulnerable population, which are individuals aged 60 and older or individuals who have underlying health conditions that make them more vulnerable to the covid virus. first priority among this population would be the vulnerable in the homeless shelters. as we move to reducing the census in the shelters to create the physical distance -- physical distance required we will move to hotel rooms if they can self-care. if they can be in the room on their own with the minimum level of support from the city annan e nonprofit providers. then it is the front l

for hotel staff as well as testing for hotel staff. i think these are two things that it seems that an up front, transparent, clear commitment to the potential d.s.w. or the d.s.w.s who we want to place in hotels could go a long way. what sort of commitments are we able to give people on that front end and how are we ensuring that we are upholding our commitment to them on those things. >> so, we are following public-health guidance on the pre pre aappropriate p.p.e. andr two weeks ago there was an update from public-health. it was issued to all the sites and people are taught how to use the p.p.e. and it's explained to them before they're deployed. we have testing -- testing is now continuingly being broad happened. we have testing available to anybody at the total sites or anybody in a frontline workers whether they're city employee or not and it's free and fast. we have continually reduced the barrier testing, for example, now you just go online and you just say, i have one symptom it could be fatigue even. which anybody in this dut

but equally important is not to use the hotels that were originally found to be residential hotels and that have been converted most illegally or through various tricks because they should not be rewarded with extra money, and then, you would be putting yourselves -- or the city, rather, of being in a position from almost being estopped from taking action against them. may they're the ones that have alrea -- [inaudible] >> -- now i'm speaking for myself. i am surrounded by the kind of hotels that people have illegally changed. apart from the fact that i was on the, you know, the committee that passed the residential hotel controls back in the first place, and in one of the neighborhoods in nob hill in order to have that passed in the first place, i worked more recently with sue hester to try to make the art academy restore its buildings, some of which were residential hotels aon no hill, so i'm very sensitive to this. i worked with supervisor peskin's office when he was doing an incredible piece for technical corrections to convert rooms in other venues. certainly, s.d.a. is in favor o

i mentioned earlier we have under contract 2082 hotel rooms across 13 hotels. two sites are for first responders totalling 880 rooms. the rest of the rooms, 1202, are for the vulnerable populations i noted above. the vast majority of them being homeless individuals from homeless shelters or discharged from hospitals. of those 1202 rooms we have under contract, 751 of them are currently filled. 447 of that number are directly from our shelter system. i'll be on hand to answer questions after this. at this point i'll turn it over to chief scott, san francisco police chief. thank you. good afternoon, everyone. first i want to thank again our mayor, mayor breed, for her outstanding leadership during this pandemic. as we work to all flatten the curve and stop the spread of covid-19, it's important that we hold each other accountable. from the beginning of this pandemic, i've talked about our first and foremost job was to educate the public rather than go straight to enforcement. i think we've done and continue do a good job of that. i've also made it clear we will n

there are many factors that go into opening hotel rooms that include hotel staffing, meals, transportation, security, cleaning and i want to thank our departments at h.s.a., the department of public health, the emergency operations center run by the department of emergency management and the nonprofit community for helping us move forward as rapidly as possible. thank you. i'm going to introduce jeff tamblin, the director of m.t.a. hello, my name is jeffery tamblinful as a life-long advocate of transit and as the director of the sfmta, i never thought i would say this. but please, if you have any other option for getting around, please do not ride muni. for the duration of the public health emergency, muni is only for delivering essential workers to work and allowing san franciscans to access essential services. if you need to get around for some other purpose, please find another way. if you have the ability to drive or walk or ride a bicycle, please choose those modes. in order to ensure that there is adequate space available on our muni buses for the people who need it the most. many of

ordered the hotel to be torn down and rebuilt. when it reopened in 1938 it was touted as the most modern hotel in europe. while the nazis were living it up in town tens of thousands of people were dying from hunger and exhaustion at the book involved concentration camp just outside weimar it's a difficult legacy for the hotel. often the hotel deals with this openly and deliberately because that chapter is unfortunately post of our history i it's important for us to show that this hotel has always been an open meeting place here in the atrium we've consciously hung pieces from autists whose work was deemed degenerate by the nazis in order to create a counterpoint so that's. in addition to 3 centuries of history hotel elephant also boasts its own art collection many works were done by regular guests and include a fair number of elephants. by trying one regional specialty tooling across at the market another is closer to taito dumplings they served in virtually every restaurant environment. and i feel i'm just outside of town you can

hotel industry has stepped up to help, partially because they're struggling. 40 of the city's hotels have had to close, and the majority have laid off staff. so they've identified 10,000 rooms for people that can't self-isolate, though admittedly there's still questions for how it will work. >> what does it mean for the hotel, what does it mean for the employees of the hotel, and also after the quarantine is over, what does that mean? >> reporter: public health experts have also been pushing to see this population tested. >> i think that that wotually b very reasonable use of limited testing resources. >> reporter: mayor london breed has been at odds with the board of supervisors and homeless service providers on how quickly to fill the hotels. so far, 190 rooms are occupied by the homeless. 945 rooms are under contract for that population. 30 rooms are occupied by first responders, and another 883 rooms are under contract for them. in the rfq obtained by kpix, we get a look into how this will work. the contracts will last a minimum of four months. there will be two categories of hot

for the hotel rooms online. the number one priority is to discharge or divert individuals who need to quarantine because they are covid positive or have been tested and are showing symptoms. divert from the hospital or discharge from the hospital when they don't need to be there. 95% of these individuals are homeless. remaining would be those in single room occupancy hotels and can't quarantine at their home. next population that is important for hotel rooms are the vulnerable population, which are individuals aged 60 and older or individuals who have underlying health conditions that make them more vulnerable to the covid virus. first priority among this population would be the vulnerable in the homeless shelters. as we move to reducing the census in the shelters to create the physical distance -- physical distance required we will move to hotel rooms if they can self-care. if they can be in the room on their own with the minimum level of support from the city annan e nonprofit providers. then it is the front l

>> in a hotel? >> yes. >> would you be able to take care of yourself in a hotel room. >> yes. >> we have a room for you, you would be able to take care of yourself and take shelter in place? would you rather be here on the streets or would you rather be in a hotel isolated? to stay safe from the virus? >> why would you rather be in a hotel than out here on the streets? >> it's safer? there's been dangers out here or the health issues? >> thank you, president yee. we have talked to our residents in every single district on the eastside of the city. and in the pouring rain, while they're taking their insulin and doing their best to survive on the streets, they all begged for a hotel room. they said they would go immediately, they said they could take care of themselves and not only that they offered to take care of others. why, why has it taken five weeks to get people inside of 30,000 empty hotel rooms. it's so deeply wrong and we must fix it and we must fix it now. thank you. >> thank you, superviso

in san francisco representing over 80 hotels in the city to ask for their assistance to provide hotel rooms for the most vulnerable people in san francisco. the response to our request for beds was overwhelming. we received responses from over 45 hotels representing more than 10,000 rooms. these rooms were listed in the rpp for the following population. first those covid covid positive or persons under investigation meaning they are tested and the results are not yet in. in addition these are individuals who cannot self-quarantine on their own. their current housing does not allow them to quarantine on their own. that would be individuals in the sro or single room occupancy hotels where they share bathrooms or kitchens or eating facilities. there are about 19,000 individuals living in these situations in san francisco. in addition, of course, our homeless population who live in homeless shelters, on the street are unable to self-quarantine. second population for the hotel rooms to be provided for are vulnerable populations in homeless shelters and homeless on the streets. these are in

there will be two categories of hotel guests. people who cannot self-isolate, like the homeless, or people being discharged from the hospital, and first responders. hotel staff will care for first responders as guests, changing their linens daily and cleaning their rooms, but food will not be provided. the city, in turn, will run the rooms meant for isolation. three daily meals will be provided, but cleaning services will not be. security guards will also be present at the hotels for the homeless. do you think mong too ly >> think it's moving way too slowly. >> reporter: providers say they want to be involved. they are asking the city to let them help run these hotels, which is something the city of oakland has already done. jennifer said acting quickly here is paramount to saving lives. >> if we do it in partnership, we can get it done. it's not going to be perfect, but we don't have time for perfection. >> this is an opportunity to take advantage of what is going on and build a real solution, and it's all talk and no action. >>

the current numbers in hotels we have 184 individuals who are in the vulnerable class in hotel rooms and 67 first responders. of the 184 the vast majority of these individuals are homeless. as i say, every time i am describing the city response this is a fluid situation. we arwe are responding daily to guidance from the cdc or state department of health and department of public health. the current plan based on the most recent evidence and data and information from those health authorities is that we need to bring on about 7,000 hotel rooms for the populations i described above. so our plan is to do that. we have begun our costing out of the plan, and i want to talk a little bit about those figures now. the current 1977 rooms we have under contract will cost the city about $35 million over the first three months of activation. the plan for the 7,000 hotel rooms will cost over $105 million over that same three month period. in a sense our total activation or plan of 7,000 rooms will cost approximately $105 million. this cost does include estimates for staff costs, it includes supplies

as the mayor noted, we cannot simply open the doors of hotel rooms and invite people in. where that is happening, we have care. we have to -- we have to care for every single step in the process. i'll talk about that next. in order to accomplish full shelter equilibrium with the vulnerable populations moving out, we estimate we have somewhere between 100 and 200 more who are in motion today. this will allow us to know that the vulnerable individuals who have accepted our offer of a hotel room have moved from those rooms. not all are accepting. it is scary to move into an isolation, quarantine or shelter in place room for some individuals with complex lives. for joe, it is a near impossibility. without significant care and help. those are all the things that our system of care is standing up now. we will keep working. we will keep working to support people like joe and the clients we all dedicated our lives to serving. director ror will provide an update on the big picture where we are in hotel rooms, but i wanted to provide additional context on what it takes to open a si

for the hotel rooms online. the number one priority is to discharge or divert individuals who need to quarantine because they are covid positive or have been tested and are showing symptoms. divert from the hospital or discharge from the hospital when they don't need to be there. 95% of these individuals are homeless. remaining would be those in single room occupancy hotels and can't quarantine at their home. next population that is important for hotel rooms are the vulnerable population, which are individuals aged 60 and older or individuals who have underlying health conditions that make them more vulnerable to the covid virus. first priority among this population would be the vulnerable in the homeless shelters. as we move to reducing the census in the shelters to create the physical distance -- physical distance required we will move to hotel rooms if they can self-care. if they can be in the room on their own with the minimum level of support from the city annan e nonprofit providers. then it is the front l

the current numbers in hotels we have 184 individuals who are in the vulnerable class in hotel rooms and 67 first responders. of the 184 the vast majority of these individuals are homeless. as i say, every time i am describing the city response this is a fluid situation. we arwe are responding daily to guidance from the cdc or state department of health and department of public health. the current plan based on the most recent evidence and data and information from those health authorities is that we need to bring on about 7,000 hotel rooms for the populations i described above. so our plan is to do that. we have begun our costing out of the plan, and i want to talk a little bit about those figures now. the current 1977 rooms we have under contract will cost the city about $35 million over the first three months of activation. the plan for the 7,000 hotel rooms will cost over $105 million over that same three month period. in a sense our total activation or plan of 7,000 rooms will cost approximately $105 million. this cost does include estimates for staff costs, it includes supplies

but equally important is not to use the hotels that were originally found to be residential hotels and that have been converted most illegally or through various tricks because they should not be rewarded with extra money, and then, you would be putting yourselves -- or the city, rather, of being in a position from almost being estopped from taking action against them. may they're the ones that have alrea -- [inaudible] >> -- now i'm speaking for myself. i am surrounded by the kind of hotels that people have illegally changed. apart from the fact that i was on the, you know, the committee that passed the residential hotel controls back in the first place, and in one of the neighborhoods in nob hill in order to have that passed in the first place, i worked more recently with sue hester to try to make the art academy restore its buildings, some of which were residential hotels aon no hill, so i'm very sensitive to this. i worked with supervisor peskin's office when he was doing an incredible piece for technical corrections to convert rooms in other venues. certainly, s.d.a. is in favor o

there are many factors that go into opening hotel rooms that include hotel staffing, meals, transportationt to thank our departments at h.s.a., the department of public health, the emergency operations center run by the department of emergency management and the nonprofit community for helping us move forward as rapidly as possible. thank you. i'm going to introduce jeff tamblin, the director of m.t.a. hello, my name is jeffery tamblinful as a life-long advocate of transit and as the director of the sfmta, i never thought i would say this. but please, if you have any other option for getting around, please do not ride muni. for the duration of the public health emergency, muni is only for delivering essential workers to work and allowing san franciscans to access essential services. if you need to get around for some other purpose, please find another way. if you have the ability to drive or walk or ride a bicycle, please choose those modes. in order to ensure that there is adequate space available on our muni buses for the people who need it the most. many of our bus operators are in spec

this is where our hotels will be very strumental. if someone does not need to be in a hospital bed and they are homeless, the opportunity to provide them with a bed in a hotel is so critical to their recovery and limiting their ability to spread it to other people, and it is important to making that bed available for someone who really is in need. we are focused on what is necessary to save lives. we know that there are a lot of frustration and emotion attached to what we know is a real homeless problem in our city. we are not going to be able to solve our homeless problem in san francisco with this crisis. we cannot deviate from what information we have and what systems we are putting in place in order to address this challenge and really truly flatten the curve. this is our ultimate goal, and we are busy focusing on exactly that and doing everything we can to support the most vulnerable homeless population that is sleeping on the streets now. in fact, our goal is to really target those who are over 60 and those who have underlying

economy hotels are faring the best. luxury, upscale hotels are faring the worst. your top 25 markets like new york and san francisco are actually doing worse than tertiary markets but revenues are down 90% right now for april. liz: oh, my gosh. here you are, you've got the big moment to be the ceo to run this company. let's just let our viewers know that you manage a bunch of different hotels under the big names like jw marriott but you also do the embassy suites and some discount ones. talk about what you did with your employees. you have about, as i understand it, 7,000 employees. you had to furlough 6500. yet you say that most of your hotels are still open. how are you sustaining that? >> yeah. so we have 87 hotels across the u.s. from manhattan down to key west and over to san diego up to anchorage. and the statement that all but 500 of our 7,000 associates are not working is the worst statement of my career. you know, i feel blessed actually to be in the position as ceo to try and lead through this crisis, but ultimately, we had to make the decision in quick

i also want to provide an update on the hotel -- on the hotels that we've been able to work with. last week, i had an opportunity to meet with members from the hotel council to talk about ways which they could provide assistance. we put out requests for proposals and received over 8,000 hotel rooms that could potentially be available to us to support people who are living in single room occupancy hotels who may need to shelter separately, our first responders and other folks who are working on the frontline who may not be able to go home to our loved ones. and right now, we are working with the c.d.c. to make sure that the requests that we received from the hotel provider, that it meets the guidelines and the standards that the c.d.c. is providing. and i want to be clear that even though we have access to these rooms, we may not be able to use them all. and trent will talk a little bit about what this means and how this will help in this pandemic. and we are grateful to so many of the hotels that have stepped up to the plate to support san franciscans. so with that, that is just t

mass care and shelter to rapidly expand the hotel capacity they have already obtained those hotels. we are pivoting to moving to staffing, supplying and transporting those individuals. we are be beginning this process with people vulnerable to covid-19 among the homeless. we hear you and know that being homeless makes you vulnerable, and we need to start somewhere. at the direction of public health that is people who are over 60 or who have an underlying health condition that makes you vulnerable to covid. >> i know you have a priority to keep hospital beds open, would families with young children or pregnant women be eligible for the hotel rooms you are talking about? >> we are spending a tremendous amount of time on the single adult to population. our staff and partners are working tirelessly with young people and families. let me talk how that looks. san francisco under the mayor breed attained functional zero in unsheltered homelessness. we maintained that through the covid-19. that doesn't mean somebody is sleeping in their car and not wanting to come into shelter. it means we

we've brought online over 2700 units and our negotiation with 14 hotels, totaling over 2,000 hotel rooms. >> question: can you provide an update on reaching that goal and a timeline for filling these rooms? >> it's difficult to project a timeline. each hotel has to be negotiated individually and sometimes the owners are local and sometimes on the east coast and sometimes international groups. each contract has provisions unique to the hotels and it's difficult to estimate the time for negotiation. in addition, we've said before once the hotels are under contract, it tables takes a nuf days to secure the appropriate staffing, supplies and then to move individuals in the rooms. and so i can't give a definitive timeline on when we will reach our goal of 7,000, but i can say is that we have brought on, as i said earlier, 2741 rooms, at 19 hotel locations and our negotiation with 14 other hotels, totaling 2,153 rooms. it's also important to note that the response to this pandemic requires multiple housing solutions. in addition to the hotel rooms, i talked about the 120 rvs and trailers and w

may meanwhile had been summoned by the hotel manager to her hotel's swet. >> i asked, what happened? like, he's gone. what do you mean he's gone. try, go do something. >> the hotel guards wouldn't let her in the room. >> once security officer was talking to another one, he said it's a blood bath in there. >> a blood bath that sent her mother into hysterics. >> she's emotional, whaling, tears. >> she's throwing herself on the floor. then she says, i think they're after all the convention money. it had to be a robbery. they know we carry a lot of money. somebody must have been watching us. >> unusually ben novak's convention business ran on cash. bags of it. the exhibiters would turn over their dollars to the stepdaughter may and her assistants on site. this weekend they had taken in more than $100,000. now, that money wasn't being kept in a hotel safe behind the front desk. rather it was stashed in closets, under the beds of the staff members. question, had an insider who knew how they had gone about their business decided to rip off the company by torturing ben to cough up cash? >> t

prioridad desde que comenzaran con las primerasseñales de coronavirus han identificado unos 7000 hotelesas habitaciones casi 7000 para poder ayudar a que las personas sinhogar puedan alojarse dice que están trabajando en colaboración con el gobierno de california para reembolsarle 70% de los gastos en estas habitaciones para el sector de población sin hogar esta diciendo que se enfoca a las personas que son individuales están viviendo en las calles estos son donde utilizar los recursos económicos dice que han visto cientos y cientos de individuos que no están en las calles y se han alojado en estas habitaciones, el propósito de esto es mantener una distancia sana y que no estén expuestos al coronavirus, una crisis anteriormente la indigencia es bastante alta, que ellos son vulnerables a poder contagiarse con coronavirus dice que es tan trabajando con otras jurisdicciones para asegurarse que reciban los reembolsos, están haciendo el servicio de lavado de ropa y otro tipo de servicios como seguros dice que están trabajando con un chef que provee comidas para estas personas dice que ayudo a

what are we going to do about the hotels and people who work in the hotels. how are we going to make sure that hair salons and nail places, who basically only make enough to cover rent, how do we make sure we're taking care of their back rent? how do we ensure we're supporting our small businesses and people who basically can't look back and meet the needs of the past because they're focusing on making sure they have resources and money for the future. how are we going to get these businesses back online? how are we going to recover? it is not going to be easy. the city faces a 1.1 to $1.7 billion budget deficit. what that means is we're going to have to make serious changes. we'll have to re-prioritize how we spend money. every dollar matters. every dollar matters anyway regardless of this situation, but it matters even more than ever before. and so we're going to have to make major changes and i talked about last week the economic recovery task force. supervisor norman yee and i and the board of supervisors' president, we put together a task force that will

mass care and shelter to rapidly expand the hotel capacity they have already obtained those hotels.are pivoting to moving to staffing, supplying and transporting those individuals. we are be beginning this process with people vulnerable to covid-19 among the homeless. we hear you and know that being homeless makes you vulnerable, and we need to start somewhere. at the direction of public health that is people who are over 60 or who have an underlying health condition that makes you vulnerable to covid. >> i know you have a priority to keep hospital beds open, would families with young children or pregnant women be eligible for the hotel rooms you are talking about? >> we are spending a tremendous amount of time on the single adult to population. our staff and partners are working tirelessly with young people and families. let me talk how that looks. san francisco under the mayor breed attained functional zero in unsheltered homelessness. we maintained that through the covid-19. that doesn't mean somebody is sleeping in their car and not wanting to come into shelter. it means we have

other guests are being moved out to hotels as well. on a case by case basis, depending on the guest condition and exposure, we are working with our partner agencies to place each person in an appropriate setting, whether it's in isolation or quarantine site or a shelter in place hotel. this is a 24-hour round the clock operation and the situation and numbers are changing. department of homelessness and supportive housing and the human service agency are leading the effort to move guests out of msc south while the department of public health will continue to focus on providing excellence, experts, medical care, testing and contact tracing. now i would like to take a few minutes to talk about equity, specifically health equity and how it relates to the coronavirus pandemic. as we prepare our hospitals and our city healthcare system to care for former patients, we are closely examining neighborhoods and community members that may need more access to care in this rapidly-changing and evolving situation. that is one of the reasons why we op

hotel coalition, hotels, and other individual owners of s.r.o.s who will be affected by this proposed ordinance. in light of yesterday's shelter in place order and the serious public health risk of covid-19 we reject to this hearing taking place without public participation as required by the ralph m. brown act. neither my clients nor attorneys or other concerned members of the public can violate the order and risk their health to attend this hearing. this hearing must be pro postponed. and including reacting the record in real-time and the statements by city staff and other members of the public. this is not an imminent matter. and this could be accomplished without the proposed new amendments contained within this ordinance. these amendments are not urgent and do not affect any government function as defined by the order. we respectfully request that this hearing be postponed until the shelter in place order is lifted and we reserve the right to have additional arguments and materials in advance of the final hearing on this matter. thank you, for your krrs, very truly yours. so that

their clientele in the large chain hotel floors in the black hotels go out of business. but the landscape is forever changed with the help of ordinary men and women choosing the automobile and travel as their weapon. >> if you have a question raised her hand and we will run a microphone to you, please ask your question in the form of a question. >> was that little girl -- was that you? >> it was. >> it was. >> yes it was. [applause] [laughter] >> my father was a photographer and it was a piece of film that i found in day gave all of my old home movies to rick and he printed them digitally and that was one of the pieces of film. [inaudible question] >> i'm in exhibition curator primarily and i was doing an exposition in saratoga springs new york and a colleague of mine who wrote a book about leisure in saratoga springs asked me five heard of the green book, 20 years ago. and i had never heard of at that point and i was intrigued in one of my graduate student tuition from chicago, i was told they had were nothing university of chicago and one of my graduate students copied

hotels flourish but the black hotels go out of business. the landscape is forever changed with the help of ordinary men and women choosing the automobile and travel as their weapon. >> so if you do have a question raise your hand, we will lend a microphone to you . please ask your questionin the form of a question . >>. >> when that girl tried to open the car door, was that you ? >>. >> my father was a photographer and it was a piece of film that i found and i gave all of my old home movies to rick and he printed them digitally and that was one of the pieces of film. >> on an exhibition curator primarily and i was doing an exhibition in saratoga springs new york and a colleague of mine who was had written a book about leisure in sarasota springs asked me if i'd ever heard of the green book. about 20 years ago and i had never heard of it at that point andi was intrigued . and one of my graduate students was from chicago. i knew that they had one at the university of chicago and one of my students copy it for me and that was my first green bo

the large chain hotels flourish, but the black hotels go out of business. the landscape is forever changed with the help of ordinary men and women, choosing the automobile and travel as their weapon. [applause] see what if you have a question please raise your hand will bring a microphone to you. please ask your question in the form of a question. [inaudible] someone open the carter was that you? >> guest: yes it was. [laughter] [applause] [laughter] [applause] >> guest: my father was a photographer. it was a piece of film i found and i gave all of my old home movies to rick. he printed them digitally and that's one of the pieces of film. civic how did you get interested in the topic? >> guest: i'm an exhibition curator primarily. i was doing an exhibition in sarasota springs new york and a colleague of mine had written a book about leisure in saratoga springs asked me if i ever heard about the green book. it was about 20 years ago. i had never heard of it at that point, i was intrigued. one of my graduate students from chicago found that they had one at th

that is hotel rooms for the homeless. and as you know, the governor loves numbers. >> some 6,867 hotel rooms, to be exact now are in our possession, on the way to >>r: by e ged e untiesinfecte that need a place to recover in isolation. he called it a solution beyond the pandemic. >> so we can look more long- term as this being part of our panoply of solutions to address the homeless crisis in the state of california. >> we are not going to be able to solve our homeless problem in san francisco with this crisis. >> reporter: the mayor of san francisco was speaking at the very same moment as the governor, warning that hotels were not necessarily an easy fix in the short or long term. she is prioritizing those rooms for homeless who have tested positive, and those considered most vulnerable. >> those over 60, those who have underlying conditions. >> we have over 2,000 hotel rooms that are sitting empty today that are in contract that we're paying for. we do not want the city to hold them empty. haven't today homeless advocat