Renting rooms for homeless got too expensive, so Hennepin County bought hotels
More than $25 million was spent to buy five motels and hotels and another property
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January 30, 2023
Anthony Souffle, Star Tribune
Brionna Mosley turned on a morning meditation in her room at Stevens Square Residence, where's she's lived for about six months.
During the pandemic, Hennepin County created a strategy to keep those experiencing homelessness and those most susceptible to getting COVID-19 safe - rent them hotel rooms.
But the concept was getting expensive and the county decided in late 2020 it would just be cheaper to buy hotels.
More than $25 million was spent to buy five properties, mostly paid for by federal pandemic recovery funding. They are being renovated into hundreds of affordable single-room places to live and will be run by agencies contracted by the county.
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