NYC Council bill would give hotel workers up to $1K a week in severance

As COVID’s effects on the city intensified more broadly, many hotels were converted to temporary housing for the homeless, who the city feared would become vectors for the disease, particularly in congregant, dorm-style shelters. Hotels were reimbursed for those expenses, but the city reversed course on that policy as vaccines became available, and it has begun moving the homeless who’ve stayed in hotels back to shelters.