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Roswell orders Economy Hotel vacated after safety inspection; city arranges rehousing support
Summary
Roswell city officials said life-safety and structural problems discovered during a human-trafficking–linked investigation prompted an order to vacate the Economy Hotel; the city and partners are providing intake, transportation and temporary housing, and have given $25,000 to the Drake House.
A city official told the Roswell City Council that the Economy Hotel must be vacated because inspection teams found "very, very serious structural issues and that it's compromised." The city began door-to-door notifications, posted bilingual notices, and planned to complete the vacate operation by Saturday (date not specified).
The decision followed a recent human-trafficking investigation that led to arrests and prompted deeper scrutiny of the hotel, the city official said. "As a result of that, it led to, some further, ability to investigate the hotel, that led to a number of our teams, uncovering some life safety, health, building issues that, really place, residents in or the occupants in peril," the city official said.
Why it matters: The building housed families and individuals, including children and people with…
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