Ideally, they need to be replaced. These are old, turn-of-the-century buildings. They used to be flophouses. It's not an ideal living situation for a chronically homeless person to be in.
By the mid-2000s, the city doubled down on preservation, passing a new law to maintain as permanent housing SROs and other cheap hotels that had turned into full-time homes, according to the Times.
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