City of Rutland shuts down homeless hotel over code violations

[TexasTowelie]

RUTLAND, Vt. (WCAX) - Rutland’s mayor is shutting down the local Quality Inn, one of the hotels taking part in the state’s emergency housing program for the homeless.

City officials say they inspected the hotel and found so many violations, they are kicking everyone out by June 1. The city cites 26 violations including doors that do not latch, combustible materials stored in front of exits, leaking pipes, holes in walls, and a garden hose draining onto the carpet. The hotel has thirty days to correct all violations.

It’s the same hotel where two shooting deaths took place in the past six months and an overdose this week.

“There are a number of families that are down there --through no fault of their own -- they really are homeless, they need a place to stay. But there also was an element of folks down there that had no right, no business being there. There is very little oversight. The owners were lax and really as far as I was concerned, the state had dropped the ball on the program too,” said Rutland Mayor David Allaire.

Read more: https://www.wcax.com/2021/05/28/city-of-rutland-shuts-down-homeless-hotel-over-code-violations/

[ShazamIam]

1. When I was growing up and being a member of a regular church attending family, we were taught

that one of the divisions between Good Christian Nations and other national cultures, each individual is valued.

But oops, our history reveals that we now have a culture that is buying into the idea of a disposable group of people.

This idea had been planted and cultured during the 70s, and played out in full when in the Reagan then Gov of CA dumped the mentally ill of California's state mental hospitals onto the streets, to die.

[Throck]

2. This would be a great project for Habitat For Humanity!

Housing is housing. I know a number of retired trades guys who take apprentices under their wing.

Time to make a call and put a bug in someone's ear.