A question remains in light of the dangerous conditions families endured at a now-shuttered Roswell hotel — and after cries for help at a similarly troubled apartment complex in College Park: How did we get here?
“More than 100 rooms were occupied at the Economy Hotel when Roswell officials moved to shut it down last week. In some cases, there were 10 to 15 people living in a single room,” Interim Fire Chief Patel Troche said.
Among the 159 adults living there, several were in wheelchairs or had hearing or visual impairments. The hotel also housed 50 children and 46 animals in conditions described as unsafe and unsanitary with rusted stairwells, exposed electrical wiring near showers and outdoor play areas, no working smoke detectors, and an inoperable elevator covered in plywood…