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Revitalization Versus Downtown SROs

Posted by: Brenda Meyer
Thanks to: Brenda Meyer
12 June 2005 - 7:00am

Sacramento officials are looking into alternatives to condemning several downtown single-occupancy hotels, a move some homeless advocates say will create even more problems.

"Sacramento's downtown residential hotels are refuges of last resort, frequently the only option between a bed and the streets... Those same Single Room Occupancy hotels - known as SROs - sit on parcels of prime real estate in the heart of downtown and the city's most focused redevelopment effort."

Full Story: Downtown residence hotels pose quandary
Source: The Sacramento Bee, June 9, 2005
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