“We don’t have anywhere else to go”: OU Motel closure adds to metro’s affordable housing shortage
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OU Motel closure may raise homeless count
A developer under contract to buy the OU Motel said he only recently learned that people were being forced to move out and possibly being made homeless. Saturday was to be the deadline that residents ...
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“We don’t have anywhere else to go”: OU Motel closure adds to metro’s affordable housing shortage
KFOR and KGOU partnered for this report as part of a collaborative project under the Oklahoma Media Center. NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR/KGOU) — Deandre Evans has lived at the OU Motel for over five years.