LA Times Today: A year after opening 600 rooms to L.A.’s unhoused, the Cecil Hotel is still mostly empty
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The historic Cecil Hotel in Downtown L.A. reopened as a permanent supportive housing project in 2021. The facility boasts 600 rooms reserved for the neediest Angelenos.
But after a year of operating, with encampments in the nearby Skid Row neighborhood growing by the day, most of the rooms are still vacant.
But after a year of operating, with encampments in the nearby Skid Row neighborhood growing by the day, most of the rooms are still vacant.