Following a lawsuit brought against the Astoria Hotel by THC, a Superior Court Judge rules that the hotel must revert back to residential use.

THC represents tenants of the Folsom Street Hotel, a residential building, alleging they were improperly denied a return to their home following a fire at the building. The City’s Zoning Chief is pressured to investigate the illegal conversion of the hotel into a youth hostel rebranded as the Soma Inn.