Converting a motel to homeless housing, step by step [calmatters.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 6/11/201:27 PM

By Matt Levin, Cal Matters, June 9, 2020

Salvador Bradford takes pride in keeping his studio apartment relatively tidy.

He needs to. The converted hotel room he calls home has around 250-square feet of space to fit a bathroom, stove-top, and mini-fridge.

But there is space enough for the trappings of home: a shelf full of Star Wars and Star Trek DVDs, a small self-described “shrine” to Jesus Christ, to whom Bradford credits his past five years of sobriety.

He’s lived in the room at what was formerly the Hotel Berry in downtown Sacramento since last year and says his current twin mattress sure beats his past two years sleeping on the streets of San Francisco and Sacramento.

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