Fifteen years ago Los Angeles passed a law to preserve residential hotels as housing of last resort. Now, amid the homelessness crisis, Capital & Main and ProPublica found some hotels may be violating that law by offering rooms to tourists.
Wow, if anything the headline downplays how wild this is. I assumed it was talking about general market forces fucking up housing, but there are specific properties required by law to be low income housing that were just blatantly converted to hotels with zero enforcement. And the response from the officials who are supposed to be enforcing it is just ‘oh we need to do better, we’re trying!’ Sickening.
Wow, if anything the headline downplays how wild this is. I assumed it was talking about general market forces fucking up housing, but there are specific properties required by law to be low income housing that were just blatantly converted to hotels with zero enforcement. And the response from the officials who are supposed to be enforcing it is just ‘oh we need to do better, we’re trying!’ Sickening.