Nine low-income tenants displaced after the run-down SRO apartments they lived in near the Santa Monica Pier caught fire four years ago have won a $1 million settlement, their attorneys announced Monday.
The 2016 lawsuit claims the property owner kept the 16 upstairs units at 1605 Ocean Front Walk, known as the Overlook Hotel, in an uninhabitable and unsafe condition before a fire forced the tenants to vacate, according to the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and Scali Rasmussen.
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