HOUSING: Remember the poor

Coeur d’Alene is supposedly trying to help the homeless, vets and low income but yet they tear down the last low-income housing that some people can afford to put up an expensive hotel/motel. Really? I think we have enough hotels and motels here in Coeur d’Alene. We need more places for the low income and the homeless.

I totally understand where miss Becki Pearsen is coming from because I’m on SSI and I only make $488.67 a month and I can’t even afford a place of my own like Miss Pearsen has because to rent a place you have to make three times the amount of the rent. All I can afford is a room for rent from someone as long as there is no security deposit or extra fees, but even then, where could I rent with my dog, who is my service animal, without a big deposit?

This is really sad for the homeless, low income and vets who need a place or have a place and are now going to be kicked out for a 108-room hotel. Where are those people going to go now? What do those people building the hotel expect the people living there to do or to go? After this hotel, what’s next?

JAMIE L. ROYER

Coeur d’Alene