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Failure of Skid Row landlord ‘canary in the coal mine’ for other homeless housing in Los Angeles, report says
A new report analyzing the 2023 collapse of Skid Row Housing Trust found problems throughout L.A.'s homeless housing system.
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The end of Skid Row’s cheap hotels? L.A. leaders want to replace last-resort homeless housing
In a tidy 11-by-15 room on the second floor of the 38-unit Haskell hotel, one of four SRO Housing Corp. buildings on the 500 block of Wall Street in Skid Row, Micah Ray can’t ignore what’s ...
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LA wants to demolish SRO hotel rooms for the homeless
Two decades ago, the City of Los Angeles passed a law to preserve Skid Row’s historic single-room occupancy hotels. Now it wants to tear them down. The office of Mayor Karen Bass, nonprofit ...
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Hotel Cecil could finally reopen in late 2021
In 2016, developers announced a major renovation planned for the historic and creepy Hotel Cecil ... The SRO residences would be operated by Skid Row Housing Trust and available to tenants ...
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As cities crack down on homeless, L.A. offers them a hotel room
The program has moved thousands into hotel rooms or shelters ... Community Action Network provides services to the poor from Skid Row, the downtown district where thousands of people camp on ...
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The infamous Cecil Hotel, where at least 16 people have died, recently reopened — here's its history and what it's like today
The low-cost rooms, along with the hotel's proximity to Skid Row, earned the Cecil a reputation for being home to sex workers, people down on their luck, and crime. Percy Ormond Cook was the first ...
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'Street medical teams' to test LA's homeless for COVID-19
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles will provide COVID-19 testing and additional resources to Skid Row and other encampments ... has secured a 10,974 hotel rooms for the unsheltered as well as ...