During the beginning of the pandemic this past spring, I read several articles reporting decisions by officials in San Francisco and Alameda counties to lease thousands of vacant hotel rooms to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the homeless by providing some of most vulnerable among them with an alternative to crowded shelters, encampments, and their motor vehicles.This initiative resulted in homeless individuals and families potentially living in — though some of this "alternative housing" was reserved only for healthcare workers needing quarantine space, and it's unclear which hotels...…During the beginning of the pandemic this past spring, I read several articles reporting decisions by officials in San Francisco and Alameda counties to lease thousands of vacant hotel rooms to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the homeless by providing some of most vulnerable among them with an alternative to crowded shelters, encampments, and their motor vehicles.This initiative resulted in homeless individuals and families potentially living in — though some of this "alternative housing" was reserved only for healthcare workers needing quarantine space, and it's unclear which hotels...WW…