Transit Occupancy Tax funds hotel rooms for unhoused 29 Palms residents
As snow fell in Twentynine Palms last night (February 22), the City Council rented hotel rooms to provide warm shelter for unhoused people in the community. Money raised through the city’s transient occupancy tax has been used to rent rooms at the American Best Value Inn Twentynine Palms for thirteen people beginning last night and until Sunday morning (February 26). The hotel rooms are being paid for by funds raised by the transient occupancy tax ,which are fees added to vacation rentals within…