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I told you so

Scarborough Maine Comfort Inn is getting out of the homeless business

[T]he Comfort Inn in Scarborough no longer wants to shelter about 100 homeless people and has begun issuing eviction notices.

The Opportunity Alliance had been renting all 60 rooms there to house individuals and families experiencing homelessness, but the owner now wants out of the shelter business.

“We have the police there two, three times a day,” Scarborough Town Council Chair John Cloutier said.

Scarborough police have responded to 350 calls and nearly 420 offenses at the Comfort Inn on Route 1 this year, many for drug overdoses.

The usual suspects around the country: San Francisco, Portland, OR, NYC, are already placing homeless in hotels, with the expected, ruinous results, and in Los Angeles, the hotel workers union, of all people, has managed to get a measure on the 2024 ballot that will force every single motel and hotel in the city to accept homeless “guests” every day for every room that is still vacant by 2:00 pm. I say that union is pushing this law “for some reason” because I can’t fathom how they intend to profit from the collapse of the hotel industry in the city.

But I’m sure they have a plan.