The notices that hung on the doors of the Inn by the Station – spelled out over a Manteca Police Department badge – told the residents that they could no longer inhabit the places that they had called home. But it looks like the tenants of the 21-units – some of whom have paid up in advance – will get a brief 48-hour reprieve while a legal assistance firm sits down with representatives from the City of Manteca to determine how best to proceed with the property that was for years known as The Rose Motel and has since become a safety hazard to its occupants. At the 11th hour on Monday afternoon, local community activists learned that the City of Manteca would not be actively enforcing the illegal occupation notices that they had posted earlier in the day that spelled out the variety of code enforcement and basic safety hazards that have rendered one of Manteca’s last low-income havens unfit for living.
Uncertainty about their shelter
