Brown: An alderman, the mob and an SRO

Ald. George Cardenas (12th) says he was only trying to help the homeless when he introduced an ordinance to exempt SROs —single-room occupancy buildings — from the city’s residential landlord-tenant ordinance. How strange then that all the city’s low-income housing advocates are arrayed against him, while his main support is from an SRO operated by a […]