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Sohn: East Ridge and Superior Creek owners need to step up

"No trespassing" signs are visible on the fence at Superior Creek Lodge in East Ridge., Tenn. Some 1,500 people were made homeless when East Ridge condemned the buildings because they are unsafe.
"No trespassing" signs are visible on the fence at Superior Creek Lodge in East Ridge., Tenn. Some 1,500 people were made homeless when East Ridge condemned the buildings because they are unsafe.

By Pam Sohn 3 min read

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What will happen to Superior Creek Lodge? Cook: Superior Creek Lodge situation is a crisis on top of a crisis Superior Creek Lodge pets also needed relocating East Ridge officials condemn two buildings at Superior Creek Lodge 1,500 people, 300 families displaced by condemned buildings in East Ridge East Ridge officials force people out of about 138 rooms at Superior Creek Lodge

How is it that 1,500 people, all suddenly made homeless, don’t constitute a disaster?

It’s true there was no flood, no fire, no tornado.

But after East Ridge firefighters closed Superior Creek Lodge and ordered its 1,500 residents out into the parking lot because the buildings were unsafe, Community Foundation President Pete Cooper summed it up well: “If East Ridge had flooded and 7 percent of its population was displaced, I believe there would have been a larger community response.”

Instead, these were poor people simply evicted from the extended-stay hotel/apartment complex whose owner had let the property rot to the point that it was condemned as a “danger to human life.”