https://www.siliconvalley.com/2020/12/02/san-mateo-county-buys-two-redwood-city-hotels-for-senior-homeless-housing/ > REDWOOD CITY — As the coronavirus pandemic continues to disproportionately affect the Bay Area’s homeless population, San Mateo County supervisors purchased two hotels in the city to be converted into permanent housing. > Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to purchase the TownePlace Suites on Twin Dolphin Drive and the Pacific Inn Hotel on El Camino Real as part of Project Homekey, a program started at the beginning of the pandemic to give local governments federal and state assistance to rehab hotels and old apartment buildings into long-term housing for people experiencing homelessness.