There’s always a man, somewhere, taking out the trash, his light blue jeans rolled above his ankles; waving at his elderly neighbor watering her tomato plants; picking up the morning paper and click-click-clicking his tongue at the new abortion law gridlocking Congress.
Look at these fucking idiots, he shakes the paper at his girlfriend as she steps into her senior-management-approved pencil skirt,
thank God we live in this state which could be Oregon or New York or California but never Texas or Kentucky or Mississippi but maybe Illinois or Michigan or Colorado somewhere Democratic and diplomatic. Riding his fixed gear through Portland, Brooklyn, Long Beach, Denver, Seattle and seeing her, in that orange pea coat;
Starting in February the Motel 6 that sits at the “Iron Triangle” intersection of Pacific Coast Highway, Bellflower Boulevard and Seventh Street will begin to serve as an interim housing site, but the speed at which that happened has alarmed some residents in the surrounding neighborhoods.
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The 43-room site is part of the Project Homekey effort and will serve people with complex health or behavioral health issues who need assistance in increasing independence while transitioning to a permanent housing situation. The site will be run by Serenity Recuperative Care, which operates eight sites across the county including one near Fourth Street’s Retro Row that’s been in operation since 2017.