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LA's infamous Cecil Hotel up for sale after transformation to house homeless people

Brent Fode, 63, and his dog TaterTot on Dec. 9, 2022. The two were living at the Cecil Hotel. The Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles turned into a permanent supportive housing project and is now up for sale in 2024..

LOS ANGELES — Now searching for a new owner: Downtown Los Angeles high-rise rich in colorful anecdotes from its history, albeit most quite haunting. Offers units overlooking Skid Row, many stubbornly vacant. Best known for the Netflix series about the dead body found in a water tank on its roof.

The building is the infamous Cecil Hotel, which was transformed in recent years into a privately funded supportive-housing complex for the formerly homeless. A new owner wouldn't technically acquire the property at 640 S. Main Street but would instead

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