Looming SRO Closure Sets Off Another Round of Soul-Searching Over Housing’s Bottom Rung
City housing officials are rushing to aid residents who will soon be booted from the downtown Plaza Hotel, the latest historic single-room occupancy hotel set to shut down in anticipation of a redevelopment project. It’s renewed the debate over how to preserve SROs – a conversation that tends to only ramp up in the face of a high-profile closure.