Anaheim city leaders unanimously approved a plan to allocate some of the revenue generated from a hotel tax to affordable housing programs that will benefit workers.

In 2018, the Anaheim Tourism Improvement District was created to promote and make area improvements to benefit the hotels in the Platinum Triangle and Anaheim Resort area. That district is funded through a hotel tax — in 2025, revenues are estimated to be around $32 million. That pot typically has been divided in a 3:1 ratio toward marketing and transportation improvements.

Now, hotel workers could get a share of the pie, around 9% of the revenue — or roughly $3 million — to create workforce housing programs.

It comes almost two years after state auditors found that some of the millions of dollars generated from the hotel t

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