Help for the Homeless?
What a shame that the owners of Ambassador Hotel asked for a permit to destroy 525 rooms of the hotel!
We all have been reading about the plight and problems of homeless and senior citizens’ lack of places to stay and live during the past few years.
The Ambassador Hotel would have been perfect for senior citizens with low retirement pensions. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development should have taken some kind of rent-subsidy action concerning the housing problems for senior citizens.
The Ambassador Hotel could have made at least $150,000 to $250,000 a month annually--plus the shops they have, which could have been converted to a shopping area for the senior citizens to shop without leaving the grounds. Small restaurants, drug stores, gift shops, etc., could be semi-public businesses--another annual income to gain. Even a small health and medical center could have been established inside of the large hotel complex.
Many of the Los Angeles politicians have been screaming about housing problems, and no money to build more housing.
Yet there is this large hotel big enough to house at least a thousand senior citizens.
ZELDA M. RUEFF
Valencia
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