This seems like good news for the R-G's campaign to win an award for its (ahem) "coverage" of homelessness -- can't let The Oregonian hoard that hardware -- because this perceived intransigence by a Roseburg motelier can only enhance our area's misconception as a migratory hotspot.
That can only mean more stories like the recent one about the local couple -- from Dallas, Texas, who migrated despite not being able to afford living here -- now helping to build their own tiny house. Or the one not that long ago about another local couple -- two wandering souls having met at a Grants Pass commune -- who felt "they could do better in Eugene," so they came here while expecting their first child and got in on the tiny-house craze, too.
Because, as the R-G editorialists remind us ad nauseam, homelessness is a local concern, and we're all so very close to that precipice and just won't admit it.