Irvine, CA: The hotel industry failed to collect the number of valid signatures required to referendize the Housekeeper Bill of Rights passed in November by the Irvine City Council. Housekeepers fought to pass the bill in 2022, which provides: Provide working panic buttons and other security measures like 24-hour security to protect hotel housekeepers from […]
Hundreds Rally Outside Invitation-Only Forum at Five-Star Santa Monica Beachfront Hotel Santa Monica, Calif. Yesterday, a group of corporate airport executives convened an invitation-only forum at a five-star beachfront hotel while hundreds of airport industry cashiers, cooks, servers and bartenders marched outside, calling on hospitality industry leaders to help solve the city’s escalating housing crisis by […]
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Over a thousand room attendants, cooks and servers with tools of their trade–beds, bell carts, mops–marched in downtown LA today asking the hotel executives attending the American Lodging Investment Summit, “the largest hotel investment conference in the world,” to step up and help solve the region’s housing crisis.
The Responsible Hotels Ordinance will help address the affordable housing crisis by: Ensuring hotel developments do not displace affordable housing Establishing a program similar to the successful Project Roomkey to provide temporary lodging for unhoused families and individuals. Read the full text of the Responsible Hotel Ordinance.
Only 23 to 34 percent of Paycheck Protection Program dollars went directly to workers who would otherwise have lost jobs, according to an analysis by the National Bureau of Economic Research. See also “PPP In Name Only.”
Wage needed to afford a 2-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles from the National Low-Income Housing Coalition. See also the Los Angeles Hotel Worker Minimum Wage chart. Hotels rooms under construction per “Hospitality Market Report – Los Angeles” prepared by Elyse Kirby for STR, accessed January 4, 2023 [login required]. See also affordable housing units approved […]