California Stuck With $300 Million Tab as FEMA Denies COVID Housing Program Expenses | KQED

When California took the unprecedented step in the spring of 2020 to move thousands of homeless residents into hotels to protect them from the ravages of COVID-19, it did so believing the federal government would foot a large chunk of the bill.

Individual cities and counties leased and paid for those hotel rooms with the expectation that FEMA would reimburse them.

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