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Tenants and advocates urge enforcement, anti-harassment action and oversight for Skid Row hotels
Summary
Multiple speakers during public comment urged the City Council to enforce tenant protections, update rent stabilization formulas and act on poor conditions in former Skid Row SROs sold to private developers.
A steady stream of public comments at the Los Angeles City Council’s May 28 meeting focused on living conditions in Skid Row hotels and recent sales of formerly publicly held buildings to private developers, with residents and advocacy groups pressing the council for enforcement and policy changes.
Speakers representing tenant groups, the Keep LA House coalition and residents from District 14 said buildings sold by the city or trustees were being transferred to private owners who have not addressed serious habitability problems. Speakers described ongoing infestations of rats and cockroaches, nonworking elevators, broken plumbing and inadequate…
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