LANSING — Seven of the people evicted from a camp used by the homeless population in Lansing were on Thursday, March 5, evicted again, this time from a south Lansing hotel because the city said they didn’t comply with self-improvement rules.
The city agreed in late December to finance a free six-week stay at Causeway Bay Lansing Hotel & Convention Center on South Cedar Street for 57 people who had been living in a camp near Dietrich Park. The deal was part of a court settlement. The Ingham County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously in February to provide $76,500 to extend the stay for an unspecified time when the city’s six-week period was running out.
But the number of former camp residents at the Causeway Bay has been shrinking, sometimes because they weren’t following the rules, officials said. And the city sent notices to those they didn’t think were cooperating with the requirements for the free stay, telling them they had to leave the hotel by 1 p.m. March 5, because “You will no longer have access to your room or the hotel.”…