LAS VEGAS (AP) — Homeless people in Las Vegas have been directed to sleep in rectangles painted on the pavement in a makeshift parking lot camp as a way to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
It's a move that is stirring outrage by some on social media. Former Obama administration housing chief Julian Castro suggested in a post on Twitter that the city's homeless should be temporarily placed in empty hotel rooms.
Officials said they decided to temporarily place the homeless in a parking lot of a multi-use facility rather than inside a stadium, a theater, exhibit space or meeting rooms because officials planned to reserve them for potential hospital overflow