Are (Costa Mesa) Motor Inn families on borrowed time?

[KamaAina]

http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-1022-motel-families-20151021-story.html

Last week, the city Planning Commission signed off on plans to demolish the 236-room Motor Inn and replace it with 224 luxury apartments. The City Council, the final arbiter in the approval process, tentatively plans to consider the project Nov. 3.

It's a decision that the Motor Inn families say would leave them with two options — leave Costa Mesa, where their kids go to school, in search of more affordable housing, or remain in the city, possibly homeless....

"People think drug addicts and criminals end up in the motel, but it's mostly families who are here," said Dickinson, who now works as a dispatcher for a towing company. "Families who have just had it rough."...

"We'll just play by ear, probably live in another motel," Benson's oldest daughter said. "Either way, I want to leave. I want to go to college and become a radiologist. I just don't want my kids living the same way I did."

h/t kajsa, who never seems to come around anymore

[randys1]

1. The poor are inconvenient to everybody else. Eventually there will be enough of them

and they will be angry enough that it will be more than an inconvenience.

Until then we will just push the poor further and further underground.

[KamaAina]

2. SF's Dead Kennedys called it back in the '80s

[olddots]

3. most parts of Southern California are all dressed up with no place to go

Fancy frosted buildings and malls but no manufacturing jobs to support them ,