To the relief of hoteliers, a union-sponsored measure that would have forced hotel operators in the city of Los Angeles to fill their vacant rooms with homeless individuals each night is expected to be removed from the March ballot.
Hotel operators in the city of Los Angeles may not be pleased about a new requirement that they get a police permit, but several expressed relief that they apparently will not be required to house the homeless.
When The Ratkovich Co. submitted an application to build 1,061 residential units on unused land in Alhambra in May 2017, Brian Saenger, the company’s president and chief executive, said he had no idea of the difficulties that would lie ahead.