Can our cities survive COVID-19?
Orange County Register
April 20, 2020, 3:05 pm
Some cities have the luxury of reaping great revenues from a hotel bed tax. Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Laguna Niguel and others see this as a powerful funder of local services. But this leads me to my point — what happens when these revenues slow, drop or stop? When people stop staying at hotels in Anaheim, the city budget suffers.
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