The RV park is part of California's Project Room Key program, which aimed to open up 15,000 hotel rooms to the state's homeless population when the pandemic took hold in March.
Wildfire smoke plus coronavirus has created a terrible health outlook for an already vulnerable population.
During shelter-in-place, some hotel rooms were opened to homeless people — yet weren't being filled.
Project: With affordable housing already scarce, Oakland is poised for a post-pandemic homelessness boom
Without rent relief for California tenants, housing advocates fear the pandemic will worsen the homelessness crisis.
Workers at homeless shelters in San Francisco have been horrified at the lack of protective equipment for staff.