The Motel 6 in Portland has lost the lodging licenses for all but five of its rooms due to health violations, five years after it began taking in homeless people and illegal immigrants, according to Portland officials.
“There were what I can only assume were homeless people walking in to use the microwave and drink the free coffee. There were shady people loitering in the parking lot and lobby. There was what I believe to be a social worker filling out forms with and handing out food and supplies to homeless people in the lobby. When we arrived the bathroom floor was wet with human hair spread out over the floor,” said one 2021 review of the location on TripAdvisor.
Following a March health inspection, the city determined that the motel is infested with cockroaches, and revoked the lodging licenses for all but five of its 128 rooms.
The company is required to remedy the living conditions of the 123 unlivable rooms by July 1, but the immigrants living in those rooms currently will be allowed to stay until then.
One immigrant staying in the hotel told News Center Maine that the living conditions were so bad that she wanted to go back to her home country of Angola.
Homeless people, then later immigrants, have been referred to the motel by city officials since 2019, as the Motel 6 is one of the few hotels in the area that accepts General Assistance tokens.
General assistance is a taxpayer funded program which gives money for necessities, such as housing, to those who can’t afford them.
As of 2020, each family staying in the motel cost taxpayers $225 per night.
According to information provided to News Center Maine, 66 families were staying in the hotel as of Tuesday, meaning that, every year that the motel houses that many families, taxpayers pay $5,108,400.
At its peak, the building housed 120 families.
Correction: Added clarification that the Portland Motel 6 has not been entirely closed down.
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Change the name of Motel 6 to Motel Mills. These people who complain about living there…they have a roof over their head, toilets, showers, laundry service, food, (cockroaches to roast and eat. Lot’s of protein) and drink, EBT cards, cell phones. ALL FREE for them. Life is so unfair. Boo hoo.
How can you say Motel 6 has been shut down when the “immigrants” living there are allowed to remain?
If it’s been used to house homeless and immigrants for 5 years it probably been totally trashed inside.
Just part of the Democratic voter base; right A. King.
Your party in DC
dagny@57 Just low cost votes to a democrat or an INDEPENT!
Alan It has been a good cash cow to the owners and tax revenu to the city who has alowed it to exist. Welcome to Maine democrate party
Alan and YOUR tax dollars will pay for the rebuild sucker
Diversity is our strength.
Immigrants? Aren’t they illegal aliens mooching off the rest of us so the democrats can get more votes?
Send her back. Now!
Just drive around southern Maine and look for the homes with “Hate Has No Home Here” signs on the lawn, and let the illegals live there. Safe loving homes.
This is a small example of what Maine will experience and look like over the next few years. Janet Mills has set into place a plan to bring 75,000-100,000 Criminal Aliens from other Countries to out State. That is about 10% of our population.
A few years back the Democrats of Maine said the State was “too white” and that they needed to solve that problem. Their goal was to bring Maine to its knees and get us to 75% white by 2028 and 50% by 2032.
Same goal all across the nation.
They will do this by making you and your family pay for your own displacement.
This is evil.