For more than 100 years, single-room occupancy hotels have housed thousands of people in Skid Row. Now, L.A. leaders are saying their time has passed. Some fear losing them will displace their ...
Skid Row has existed for at least a century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that it became the sprawling city it is today—a forlorn stretch of tarps and tents and SRO hotels corralled into four ...
Thirty years ago, when the Produce Hotel fell into disrepair, a newly formed nonprofit, the Skid Row Housing Trust, acquired and rehabilitated the turn-of-the-century building, restoring the brick ...