In my previous essay on California's Hotels for Homeless program (Update on Hotels for California's Homeless, I noted that some progress was being made in contracting rooms and installing homeless Californians in them.

Unfortunately, that "some progress" remains molasses slow one month later. The latest news from Los Angeles isn't promising, especially considering that Governor Newsom's executive order expires May 31st.

With about 60,000 homeless residents, Los Angeles County is falling behind on its previously stated goal of moving them into 15,000 hotel rooms. With only about 2,200 rooms leased as of late this week, it could take until October to secure that goal.

L.A. County, participating in an ambitious statewide effort known as Project Roomkey, got off to a quick start by leasing nearly 2,000 rooms in the first two weeks of April. Progress has been slow since then, though. Of the 700 rooms that had been leased in the past two weeks, 500 were removed from the program over issues with insurance and contract terms.

Source: 'Tell the hotels they are commandeered.' Homeless activists are losing patience with L.A.

As the article notes, some homeless people and homeless activist groups are trying to hasten progress with little success thus far.