Pandemic-Related Vacant Property Initiatives

Abstract

With the rapid spread of COVID-19 in homeless shelters across the country, policies that provide socially distanced housing for society's most vulnerable have been widely implemented. Hotels-that would have sat vacant while the economy was shut down-were temporarily repurposed to house the homeless. Once COVID-19 pandemic became an ongoing, rather than a short-term health crisis, governments began working to find longer-term housing solutions, like the ones featured in this article.