MUST READ: @julia_lurie has a deeply reported investigation into the barriers, political and otherwise, in getting San Francisco's homeless into hotels during the pandemic, and what the attempts (or no) to do so say about long-term policy: motherjones.com/coronavirus-up…
The thing is that ad-hoc untrained staffing won't cut it for a long-term plan, especially w/r/t the most addicted and mentally ill homeless. To me, this is an even bigger—not insurmountable but big—barrier than cost to rent/buy the units. 
If there's a commercial real estate bust—if tech companies go largely remote or disburse smaller HQs across country, both of which seem likely—the units might be easier to come by than trained staff.
