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A Seattle hotel owner is suing the city of Seattle and King County, alleging officials broke contracts when they leased her property as a homeless shelter and returned it damaged and uninhabitable.

Neha Nariya, owner of the historic Civic Hotel , said King County approached her in April 2020 about using the property as a COVID-19 recovery site for homeless individuals. She agreed, telling Fox News Digital she and her family believed helping their community in the throes of a global pandemic was the right thing to do.

The Seattle Times reported that local officials feared homeless shelters could become breeding grounds for the coronavirus, so they rented hotels to slow the spread.

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