Vancouver seeks to expropriate decrepit Sahota-owned slum hotels

The City of Vancouver has filed an expropriation notice for the decrepit Balmoral and Regent hotels in the Downtown Eastside.
The notice, issued last week, kicked off a process that could take the two properties from the hands of their slum landlords and transfer them to public ownership, according to a news release by city staff.
“Despite years of enforcement efforts by the city and hundreds of bylaw violation charges presently before the courts, the owners have not made the basic investm