The Institute for Justice developed model legislation that would reduce or eliminate zoning and building code barriers to low ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - The pending purchase of the Rosslyn Hotel by the nonprofit developer SRO Housing Corp. has some Downtown residents and business officials mulling the state of affordable housing ...

The Pew Charitable Trust has a valuable new report on how state and local governments destroyed much of their potential low-income housing stock by banning or severely restricting "single-room ...

In a few months, Gene Hill will have a newly renovated, affordable place to call home. ”I don`t need a big place, just a comfortable place to call my own, something like this,” said Hill, 70, ...

A man walks past Micah Ray outside the Haskell single-room occupancy hotel in Skid Row in February. Ray, 55, says living in the building is better than a tent but otherwise dismal. (Robert Gauthier / ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — SRO Housing Corp. is transforming the Rosslyn, once considered one of LA's most luxurious hotels, from a Skid Row flophouse into a refuge for those looking for ...

Up until the five-alarm fire damaged the Graywood single room occupancy hotel and left 58 tenants without a place to live, the SRO was managed by a housing startup that matches roommates and manages ...

Downtown-based nonprofit SRO Housing Corp. filed plans with the city March 28 for a seven-story complex with 121 units in Westlake. All of the units in the complex will be affordable housing. The ...

California's single-room occupancy housing stock is facing severe financial and physical distress, with most buildings operating at a deficit, many units sitting vacant, and the majority of properties ...

To prepare meals for her family these days, San Francisco Chinatown resident Tina Yu keeps a careful watch outside of her single room occupancy unit, or SRO, on Stockton Street. Yu monitors how many ...

Today WBEZ's Odette Yousef has a piece on the closing of the Chateau Hotel in Uptown [update: I'm told by many reliable sources that the Chateau is in Lakeview]; three tenants had been hanging on to ...