Call for independent inspection of Balmoral Hotel

After City of Vancouver inspectors visited the empty Balmoral Hotel on Friday, a prominent advocate-turned-city council hopeful called for another independent inspection of the notorious Downtown Eastside rooming house.
More than 150 Balmoral residents were ordered to vacate the single-room occupancy hotel last month after city engineers deemed the century-old building dangerous and structurally unsound. The Sahota family, who own the Balmoral and other SROs among their multi-million dollar real