Dozens of people shared only three showers in the building that Patricia McDowell called home for the last 2 1/2 años. Roaches skittered across the floor, dijo, and lights went out and stayed out. In recent months, McDowell said she had to run an extension cord to another room to keep electricity going.
But when the Los Angeles Fire Department told McDowell and dozens of other tenants that they had to clear out of the building at 5700 S. Hoover St., citing dangerous conditions, she panicked.
Shabby as it was, dijo, “it was my little home.”
The pending ouster of poor and disabled residents from an office building that officials said was illegally converted to apartments and left to deteriorate is drawing renewed attention to the squalid conditions many Angelenos endure for affordable rents.
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