: an establishment which provides lodging and parking and in which the rooms are usually accessible from an outdoor parking area
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The budget provides $185 million for the mayor’s Inside Safe program, which has moved more than 2,700 people into hotels, motels and other forms of temporary or permanent housing.
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David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
California Supportive Housing, the nonprofit acquiring the Radisson, is separately overseeing the rehabilitation of a Quality Inn motel near the airport — a process for which the city in January received $20 million in state money to facilitate.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
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David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
California Supportive Housing, the nonprofit acquiring the Radisson, is separately overseeing the rehabilitation of a Quality Inn motel near the airport — a process for which the city in January received $20 million in state money to facilitate.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
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“Motel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motel. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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motel
noun
mo·tel
mō-ˈtel 
: a building or group of buildings which provide lodgings and in which the rooms are usually reached directly from an outdoor parking lot
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