After nearly four years, the last of D.C.’s hotels for medically vulnerable people experiencing homelessness is closing. It is unclear where some of the remaining residents will go.

“We know that having access to that shelter would be a life saving resource for people in the neighborhood,” one West End resident says.

The city will lose a total of 787 beds over the next year between two shelters closing for renovations and the end of the PEP-V program.

It’s unclear whether the city will continue to house each individual in a hotel room until they land in a permanent home.

The future of the program remains unclear. But advocates say its success is a lesson learned.

DHS says the city doesn’t currently have enough housing to place the more than 600 people living in PEP-V hotels, leaving their futures uncertain.

The city opened hotel rooms to protect medically vulnerable unhoused residents from COVID-19. But even as its waitlist grows, the program hasn’t expanded.