‘Destroyed in less than a year’: Granville St. SRO resident wants public to see conditions

As the province prepares to close the Luugat single-room occupancy (SRO) building on Vancouver’s Granville Street by the end of June, it appears BC Housing doesn’t want the public to see inside the former hotel that taxpayers paid millions of dollars to convert to supportive housing during COVID. “I’m happy to get out of there,” Luugat resident Stewart Holcombe said with a chuckle Friday.Holcombe told Global News he and about a dozen other residents were moving to new homes on May 1, after they were told in September that the province would be finding them places equal to or better than 1176 Granville Street.Holcombe said the bathroom roof in his fourth-floor unit at the SRO had caved in due to flooding from all the fires over the years, and his new accommodation in East Vancouver is way better. Story continues below advertisement “It’s three times the size, it’s cheaper and I have, like, a full fridge, full stove,” he told Global News ahead of the planned move. “It’s a complete bachelor suite instead of just a little box.”The Luugat had approximately 80 residents in the fall of 2025. 2:15 Granville cleanup concerns As of April 27, 36 residents remained and