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Public Interest

May 12, 2006

L.A. Halts Conversion of Single-Room-Occupancy Hotels

LOS ANGELES - The City Council halted conversions of single-room-occupancy hotels Wednesday in an effort to preserve the dwindling stock of last-resort housing for the city's poorest.

By Anat Rubin
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - The City Council halted conversions of single-room-occupancy hotels Wednesday in an effort to preserve the dwindling stock of last-resort housing for the city's poorest.
      An estimated 23,000 people live in the city's single-room-occupancy units, 13,000 of them in the downtown area. Officials estimate that the city...

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