The doors to the Towne Manor Motel are officially closed

The doors to the Towne Manor Motel in Johnstown are officially closed and the residents are out.

This comes days after city officials decided to condemn the building due to poor living conditions.

The city of Johnstown posted the legal notice on the door to the motel earlier this week – giving residents only forty-eight hours to leave the premises.

On Friday, Cambria County officials were there assisting those residents with a new place to stay.

Tracy Selak, an Administrator for Cambria County Behavioral Health, Intellectual Disabilities and Early Intervention says, “Due to the city finding some major issues at the Towne Manor,” she and other county officials were asked to assist the residents of the Towne Manor Motel in finding other living arrangements to ensure they stay out of the cold.

“We have assisted twelve individuals to relocate," says Selak, "There was a few that made other arrangements.”

Selak tells Channel 6, they have made arrangements for the residents of the Towne Manor Motel to stay in other local hotels and, “that will be temporary”.

For the residents who have made other arrangements – Selak says county officials plan to follow up with them because they're not certain if they've found permanent living situations.

Cambria County officials are also connecting them with a case management service that will help them find safe secure permanent housing.

Salek says, “We need to realize, for these people I mean we call it a motel, it has been their home”.

Selak was apart of the team that developed the plan for the Martha & Mary House – which is one of the only homeless shelters in the Johnstown area.

“This is Johnstown, Pennsylvania. We're supposed to take care of each other,” says Ronald Gramling, a resident of Dale.

Gramling thinks more needs to be done for anyone in the area without a place to live.

“You got to get these people into these houses, period," says Gambling, "You know, get them off the streets”.

Meanwhile, Selak says she's been discussing with city officials the possibility of bringing more homeless shelters to Johnstown.

If you'd like to help those struggling with homelessness, you can call Tracy Selak at 814-535-8531 or contact the United Way Laurel Highlands.

Channel 6 has also reached out to the owners of the Towne Manor Motel for comment and have not heard back.

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