Many victim services programs have long used hotel and motel stays to stretch emergency housing capacity, accommodate households who need to opt out of community shelter models, and as a bridge to imminent shelter openings or other housing. This resource explains how safe placement in hotels can provide more flexibility in how survivors’ immediate safe housing needs may be addressed during a public health crisis, including for purposes of reducing the number of survivors in congregate housing, for sexual assault survivors where programs do not traditionally offer housing services, providing safer shelter alternatives to survivors with compromised immune systems, and more.
