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(82,333 posts) Wed Nov 2, 2016, 09:17 PM Nov 2016

What happens when a motel becomes home [View all]

By Kai Ryssdal and Robert Garrova
November 02, 2016 | 2:44 PM

The role of the roadside motel has changed over the years from an inexpensive place to stay when traveling to a place some people feel they cannot escape because they have nowhere else to go.

These residential motels as their known caught the eye of Kent State sociology Professor Christopher Dum. He decided to live in a motel he calls The Boardwalk for a year and listen to the stories of the people who live there.

Dum's new book compiling these stories is titled "Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel.”

Note: the names of people and places Dum uses are pseudonyms.

https://www.marketplace.org/2016/11/02/world/what-happens-when-motel-becomes-home

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What happens when a motel becomes home [View all] rug Nov 2016 OP

this is a professional article, and the writer does not know the difference between "their" niyad Nov 2016 #1

Blame it on the proofreader. rug Nov 2016 #3

Writers should know better padfun Nov 2016 #2

Geez, people are starving. rug Nov 2016 #4

and we can still notice, and comment, on a lack of literacy. niyad Nov 2016 #5

You are also free to polish caskets. rug Nov 2016 #6

wow-- such a charming response. niyad Nov 2016 #7

Refugees are put in apartments------why aren't these people? I don't get it. virgogal Nov 2016 #8

I really think it's budgetary. rug Nov 2016 #9

The refugees are treated like royalty by virgogal Nov 2016 #10

I don't begrudge them. But I have no sympathy for the governments' housing policies. rug Nov 2016 #11

The simple fact is that our entire economy is based on debt discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2016 #12

There's a lot of truth in that. rug Nov 2016 #13

Debt is the true enemy here discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2016 #14

I honestly think the real problem is television advertizing. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2023 #18

Thanks Rug Riftaxe Nov 2016 #15

I lived for 3months in a motel 6 I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2019 #16

She probably got the 30 year mortgage because her income PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2023 #17

The Problem is ... mntleo2 Jan 2024 #19

I'm currently about halfway through that book. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2024 #20