{"id":108599,"date":"2017-07-27T22:11:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T02:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=108599"},"modified":"2017-07-27T22:11:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T02:11:33","slug":"vancouver-files-charges-against-owners-of-hotel-deemed-uninhabitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/07\/27\/vancouver-files-charges-against-owners-of-hotel-deemed-uninhabitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver files charges against owners of hotel deemed uninhabitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_108606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108606\" style=\"width: 2520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8668803867_46f56a6d1c_o-e1501207677937.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108606\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8668803867_46f56a6d1c_o-e1501207677937.jpg\" alt=\"Balmoral Hotel Ltd. (Photo: jmv\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"2520\" height=\"3776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8668803867_46f56a6d1c_o-e1501207677937.jpg 2520w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8668803867_46f56a6d1c_o-e1501207677937-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8668803867_46f56a6d1c_o-e1501207677937-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8668803867_46f56a6d1c_o-e1501207677937-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2520px) 100vw, 2520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balmoral Hotel Ltd. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jmv\/8668803867\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jmv\" target=\"_blank\">jmv\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER\u2014The City of Vancouver says it has filed 60 charges against the owners of a decaying hotel for alleged violations of bylaws related to maintenance standards.<\/p>\n<p>It says in a release that infractions at the Balmoral Hotel Ltd., which is controlled by one family, stem from two inspections of the Downtown Eastside building earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The city says the breaches include failure to maintain walls, ceilings and floors to adequate standards as well as unacceptable plumbing facilities such as baths and toilets.<\/p>\n<p>City engineers deemed the hotel structurally dangerous in June and about 143 low-income residents were helped to find other accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>Kaye Krishna, the city&#8217;s general manager of development, buildings and licensing, says landlords must be held accountable for keeping habitable standards in so-called single-room accommodation buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The city says the charges were filed in provincial court and that each of the alleged 60 infractions carries a potential fine of $250 to $10,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER\u2014The City of Vancouver says it has filed 60 charges against the owners of a decaying hotel for alleged violations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":108606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}