Open Gallery 5 items“Losing the privately-owned hotels is a crisis,” said Wendy Pederson, executive director of the Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative Society. Wendy Pederson, executive director of the Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative Society. “This displacement is unchecked and is causing harm and death in some cases,” said Ezra Bloom, who works in community outreach with SRO Collaborative. Ezra Bloom works in community outreach with SRO Collaborative. “We need an acquisition program, and we need emergency action to buy the buildings going into receivership.