A motion by city officials for Los Angeles to enter into a master lease with the Skid Row-adjacent Cecil Hotel for a permanent housing program to address homelessness on Thursday advanced in the Homeless and Poverty Committee.The hotel, a historic building which has attracted public fascination for its sordid past, has been the inspiration for a number of film and TV productions.
American Horror Story: Hotel, Season 5 of the FX anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, was based in part on the Cecil Hotel.
The building was also the subject of the 2021 Netflix documentary series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, which explored the 2013 death of 21-year-old Canadian student found in the property’s water tank.
In 2017, Investigation Discovery did a three-episode crime series called Horror at the Cecil Hotel.The property was converted into an affordable housing complex last December, but six months later, just 73 of the 600 available units are occupied.
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